Process Designer

[Planquadrat]

Hi

We tested OpenWFEru and are planning to use it.

I read several discussions about BPMN Tools in this mailing list.
Are there any tools these days which could be used somehow to
graphically design a business process and use it within an OpenWFEru
implementation ?

Thanks
Mario

[John Mettraux]

Hello Mario,

basically it means writing a converter from the BPMN "serialization
format" to the OpenWFEru process definition language.

But which format should be favoured ? There are lots of debates these days :

http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/05/BPMN20

On one hand, the wfmc is oriented towards XPDL, while the OMG is for
BPDM. There are some companies going from BPMN to BPEL.

Just to scratch my own itch, I generate some BPMN from the OpenWFEru
process definition directly, as can be seen at
http://difference.openwfe.org:3000 but of course the trend is towards
having a visio-like tool for drawing the BPMN diagram and then execute
them.

So sorry, there is nothing directly available right now.

Mit freundlichen Gruessen,

--
John Mettraux - http://jmettraux.wordpress.com

[Pat Cappelaere]

This is a great question.

BPMN Is the way to go. What do we do for serialization?
XPDL is here today and many tools (75+) generate XPDL.
http://www.wfmc.org/standards/xpdl.htm
http://www.bizagi.com/eng/

I started looking at translation of XPDL to OpenWFE. This looks very doable
and is my next task :) after finishing the WfXML/Oauth implementation.

May be we could gang up on doing this?

Pat.