9.6 8.0 Camunda BPM VS Activiti Activiti is a light-weight workflow and Business Process Management (BPM) Platform targeted at business people, developers and system admins. Its core is a super-fast and rock-solid BPMN 2 process engine for Java. Deploy and Invoke BPMN Process. Now that we know how to bootstrap the process engine within a Spring Boot Application, we can add a BPMN 2.0 process model and interact with the process from inside our Spring beans. In this section, we will. Model an executable BPMN 2.0 process. Use Spring Boot Starter auto-deployment for BPMN 2.0 processes. Below you will find a table that shows a comparison of Java workflow engines available on the market, including their major features description. Workflow Server.
This is an update to my earlier article which was written in 2011 when jBPM 5 was still not available in its final release. We will try to compare the two process engines showing, besides the similarities, also the key differences between them.
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jBPM€”is an open source process engine that initially (release 3.x) supported a custom language (named jPDL) to describe business processes. In the next release (4.x) jBPM offered both support for jPDL and the standard BPMN 2.0 which is the standard for business process modelling. The release 4.x of jBPM was never included into RedHat list of supported products and so was not clearly the choice for mission critical project.
The next version 5.x of jBPM supports BPMN 2.0, and the project has merged with the JBoss Drools project (an open source business-rule management framework) and replaced Drools Flow as the rule flowlanguage for the Drools framework.
The key features of jBPM 5 are:
- Native BPMN2 execution
- Highly configurable, embeddable, lightweight process engine using a generic process engine (PVM) underneath
- Domain-specific processes and rule / event integration via the Drools Rule engine and Drools Flow workflow
- Independent, human tasks service (using WS-HT)
- Web tooling for things like BPMN2 process creation, deployment, management, reporting (with BIRT) and human tasks
- Migration capabilities from jBPM 3 and 4 (jPDL 3, 4 to BPMN2)
Activiti, like jBPM, is a business process framework designed around the concept of a state machine. Backed by Alfresco company, Activiti has also the collaboration of many talented people from SpringSource as well.
Some differences do exist, in particular:
- Activiti has native Spring support which allows using Spring Beans in your process and in data persistence (JPA) as well.
- Activiti has no native rule engine support but supports a basic integration with Drools to support the business Rule Task
- Activiti is a bit more friendly for Java developers providing a rich set of BPMN extensions to decorate the process
- Provides an advanced Web interface (Activiti Explorer) which can be used to start/manage processes and ad hoc task and forms support.
So, in terms of comparison, we can argue that Activiti looks like the logical continuation of jBPM 3(and in fact was developer by the same jBPM 3 guys T. Baeyens, J. Barrez). It has a lower learning curve also due to a very well done documentation, including a quick start tutorial. Activiti platform is completely dedicated to process and workflow management and has some integration support with Rules systems (Drools Expert) and enterprise integration capabilities (Apache Camel and Mule ESB modules).
On the other hand, jBPM 5 has a native built-in business Rules engine therefore, the process and workflow management and rule management capabilities are tightly integrated. In the latest (5.3) release the Eclipse editor has improved a lot its BPMN 2.0 process designer capabilities and a first release of the form editor has been released.
Camunda Platform - The open source BPMN platform
Camunda Platform is a flexible framework for workflow and process automation. It's core is a native BPMN 2.0 process engine that runs inside the Java Virtual Machine. It can be embedded inside any Java application and any Runtime Container. It integrates with Java EE 6 and is a perfect match for the Spring Framework. On top of the process engine, you can choose from a stack of tools for human workflow management, operations & monitoring.
- Web Site: https://www.camunda.org/
- Getting Started: https://docs.camunda.org/get-started/
- User Forum: https://forum.camunda.org/
- Issue Tracker: https://app.camunda.com/jira
- Contribution Guidelines: https://camunda.org/contribute/
Components
Camunda Platform provides a rich set of components centered around the BPM lifecycle.
Process Implementation and Execution
- Camunda Engine - The core component responsible for executing BPMN 2.0 processes.
- REST API - The REST API provides remote access to running processes.
- Spring, CDI Integration - Programming model integration that allows developers to write Java Applications that interact with running processes.
Process Design
- Camunda Modeler - A standalone desktop application that allows business users and developers to design & configure processes.
Process Operations
- Camunda Engine - JMX and advanced Runtime Container Integration for process engine monitoring.
- Camunda Cockpit - Web application tool for process operations.
- Camunda Admin - Web application for managing users, groups, and their access permissions.
Human Task Management
- Camunda Tasklist - Web application for managing and completing user tasks in the context of processes.
And there's more...
- bpmn.io - Toolkits for BPMN, CMMN, and DMN in JavaScript (rendering, modeling)
- Community Extensions - Extensions on top of Camunda Platform provided and maintained by our great open source community
A Framework
In contrast to other vendor BPM platforms, Camunda Platform strives to be highly integrable and embeddable. We seek to deliver a great experience to developers that want to use BPM technology in their projects.
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Highly Integrable
Out of the box, Camunda Platform provides infrastructure-level integration with Java EE Application Servers and Servlet Containers.
Embeddable
Most of the components that make up the platform can even be completely embedded inside an application. For instance, you can add the process engine and the REST API as a library to your application and assemble your custom BPM platform configuration.
Contributing
Please see our [contribution guidelines](CONTRIBUTING.md).
Tests
To run the tests in this repository, please see our [testing tips and tricks](TESTING.md).
License
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The source files in this repository are made available under the [Apache License Version 2.0](./LICENSE).