Is Jbpm dying? What is the future of Jbpm and Activity Bpmn? --Jbpm vs. Bpmn--

Question

Hi all,

At first place, I have been learnt that the developers of "Jbpm" is transfered to "Activity Bpmn 2" in recent times (ex: Tom).
What the important thing I am wondering about is whether the support for Jbpm will be over or not.. Besides, I would be glad to hear your ideas about if the improvements of Activity Bpmn will make it better or useful than Jbpm by the time goes?

I would also like to know what is the main usage or advantage differences between them.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Activiti is an interesting project for several reasons:

1. They intend to commoditize the engine. For that reason they use the Apache Software License. So far several companies are backing that project. The "business model" is somewhat similar to that used by OpenStack.

2. It makes sense to have one BPMN 2.0 engine which is used and can be used by everybody. This does include jBoss (but I doubt that they will switch soon).