A simple comparison of several open source workflow engines

absrtact: At present the open source workflow engine uses the most is jbpm, each kind of characteristic is good, the document also is more, below only briefly lists

At present the open source workflow engine uses the most is jbpm, each kind of characteristic is good, the document also is more, the following only briefly lists

The characteristics of several other workflow engines.

	Apache ODE	Enhydra Shark	Bonita	Open Business Engine	Eclipse JWT
supported process Modeling Standards	Ws-bpel 2.0, the process definition must be written using this standard to perform	WFMC and OMG standard	Complies with WFMC specifications	Follow the specifications defined by WFMC
Code Amount	76K	548K	214K
bad reviews.		The system and function are the most complex, the transformation is poor Shark2.0, there are many components that are not open source. XPDL saved in the typing section, difficult to analyze and extend	Too simple for research and analysis workflow use	The persistence of workflow instances is not supported, the graphical editing environment is missing, and the five types of interfaces defined by WFMC have not been fully completed	Less documentation
Document	Documentation is more complete	Documentation is more complete	Documentation is more complete		Less documentation
supported external interface Standards	Supports BPEL, Xforms, WebService	XPDL	Web Services	Includes interface 1 (XPDL), Interface 2/3 (WAPI), and 4 Wf-xml interface 5 Audit
subjective evaluation of oneself	The framework is more flexible. Low coupling between ODE BPEL compiler, ODE BPEL runtime, ODE data Access Object (DAOS), ODE Integration Layer (ILS), and user tools	More complex It is not recommended to use when the development cycle is short	Very compact core workflow engine based on petrinet model for theoretical analysis and support for persistence	Persistence of workflow instances is not supported, the graphical editing environment is missing Not recommended	Integrated with the Eclipse development environment, but there are fewer JWT documents and no valuable documents have been found by the authorities. There's very little information about JWT. Not recommended
Community Activity Level	More active	More active	The community is active.		Not active
External Tools	No process designer provided	There is process designer	Provides a visual process editor	No process designer provided	Provides a visual process editor
Development language	Java	Java	Java	Java	Java

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Simple comparison of several open source workflow engines (RPM)