WorkflowImplementationComparison

Name

Website

License

Apache Agila (in incubation)

Apache Agila (in incubation)

Apache

Apache Lenya workflow component

Apache Lenya

Apache

Bigbross Bossa

http://www.bigbross.com/bossa/

GPL

Codehouse/Werken Werkflow

[

http://werkflow.codehaus.org/license.html]

con-cern

http://con-cern.org/index.html

LGPL

Enhydra Shark

http://shark.enhydra.org/

LGPL

jBpm

http://www.jbpm.org

Apache

ObjectWeb Bonita

http://bonita.debian-sf.objectweb.org/

LGPL

OFBiz Workflow Engine

http://ofbiz.org/

MIT

Open Business Engine

http://obe.sourceforge.net/

Apache-like

OpenFlow

http://www.openflow.it/

GPL

OpenSymphony OSWorkflow

http://www.opensymphony.com/osworkflow/

Apache

OpenWFE

http://www.openwfe.org

BSD-like

PowerFolder

http://www.powerfolder.org/

LGPL

Taverna/Freefluo

http://taverna.sourceforge.net/, http://freefluo.sourceforge.net/

LGPL

WfMOpen

http://wfmopen.sourceforge.net/

GPL

wftk

http://www.vivtek.com/wftk/

GPL

XFlow

http://xflow.sourceforge.net/

Apache

• Property/capability*

• Lenya workflow*

• OSWorkflow*

• jBpm*

OpenWFE

Basics

Principle

State machine

State machine

Activity diagram

Execution Stack

Nested states

no

no

no

yes

Forking and syncing

no

some limitations, e.g. a sync can not be followed by a fork

yes

yes

Subprocesses

no

no

yes

yes

Extensibility

Java

yes

yes

yes

yes

BSF

no

yes

no

no

BeanShell

no

yes

no

no

Python

no

yes

Remote access

EJB

no

no

yes

no

SOAP

no

yes

no

no

REST

no

yes

Storage

Memory

yes

yes

no

no (in the works)

Serializable

no

yes

no

no

JDBC

no

yes

yes

yes

OfBiz

no

yes

no

no

EJB

no

yes

no

no

XML

proprietary

Extras

Diagram of process

no

no

added easily

yes

Indication of current state/step in diagram

no

no

added easily

yes

Standard front end

no

web

web/REST