Comments on: Why BPMN Matters http://itredux.com/2006/04/17/why-bpmn-matters/ New Rules for a New IT World Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:23:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7-beta3 hourly 1 By: Ismael Ghalimi http://itredux.com/2006/04/17/why-bpmn-matters/comment-page-1/#comment-1338 Ismael Ghalimi Mon, 24 Apr 2006 22:05:10 +0000 http://itredux.com/blog/2006/04/17/why-bpmn-matters/#comment-1338 Jeff, Your tool looks really nice. I'm glad to finally some real competition in the BPMN+BPEL space. Jeff,

Your tool looks really nice.

I’m glad to finally some real competition in the BPMN+BPEL space.

]]> By: Jeff Pai http://itredux.com/2006/04/17/why-bpmn-matters/comment-page-1/#comment-1312 Jeff Pai Sat, 22 Apr 2006 16:33:45 +0000 http://itredux.com/blog/2006/04/17/why-bpmn-matters/#comment-1312 To the best of my knowledge, <a href="http://www.eclarus.com">eClarus</a> (a young start-up company) has implemented the first round trip engineering between BPMN and BPEL in eClarus Business Process Modeler, and the product is ready to ship by the end of this month. eClarus has worked on the round trip engineering problem for the last year. The biggest technical challenge we encountered was to semantically map the BPMN flow to BPEL. BPEL is a block structured language with limited flow capability. In contrast, BPMN is a constrained, but relatively free-form graph. Mapping BPEL to BPMN is easier than the other direction. The approach we take is through a two-phase transformation with token-based flow analysis as first phase to partition the flow model in a set of sub-flows, and then transform the sub-flows according to some patterns. We have documented the technical approach with many examples in a <a href="http://www.eclarus.com/lr_mapping.html">white paper</a> written by our CTO <a href="mailto:ygao@eclarus.com">Yi Gao</a>. To the best of my knowledge, eClarus (a young start-up company) has implemented the first round trip engineering between BPMN and BPEL in eClarus Business Process Modeler, and the product is ready to ship by the end of this month.

eClarus has worked on the round trip engineering problem for the last year. The biggest technical challenge we encountered was to semantically map the BPMN flow to BPEL. BPEL is a block structured language with limited flow capability. In contrast, BPMN is a constrained, but relatively free-form graph. Mapping BPEL to BPMN is easier than the other direction.

The approach we take is through a two-phase transformation with token-based flow analysis as first phase to partition the flow model in a set of sub-flows, and then transform the sub-flows according to some patterns. We have documented the technical approach with many examples in a white paper written by our CTO Yi Gao.

]]> By: Tales Costa http://itredux.com/2006/04/17/why-bpmn-matters/comment-page-1/#comment-1305 Tales Costa Sat, 22 Apr 2006 01:29:58 +0000 http://itredux.com/blog/2006/04/17/why-bpmn-matters/#comment-1305 Just to note that there is a tool supporting diagrams using the ARIS notation. It is named ARPO and is produced by <a href="http://www.klugsolutions.com/">Klug Solutions</a>. I am not a user and have only tested the demo, but it seems to be a usable tool. I don't know if there are intellectual property issues. Just to note that there is a tool supporting diagrams using the ARIS notation. It is named ARPO and is produced by Klug Solutions. I am not a user and have only tested the demo, but it seems to be a usable tool. I don’t know if there are intellectual property issues.

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