BPMN

Bruce Silver has recently posted a popular piece on BPMN that reminded me of some comments made by Assaf Arkin at the Intalio User Conference way back in June.

Is BPMN a graphical BPEL designer?  Yes, with a tool like Intalio, I think that is true.  But working with BPEL (for a business functional guy like me) is akin to putting hot metal under my fingernails.  It’s not that I couldn’t learn to write BPEL, it’s just that I work to live not live to work …

I’ve always been impressed with the simplicity of the Ruby process executable used in openWFEru (demonstrating Ruby’s flexibility).

Simple BPEL (Simpel) is being developed/integrated by the Intalio team.  This is likely to provide a usable alternative to graphical BPEL designers.  There is a suggestion that BPMN diagrams could be generated from Simpel.  I don’t know, but I’m guessing it’ll be possible to write Simpel directly in Ruby …

Maybe Simpel will gain the popularity of BPMN.  The opportunity is that I can use a simple editor to write Simpel processes without having to use a BPMN designer.  This, I guess, avoids the translation problem from diagram to BPEL?

Anyway, I’m down in London in a couple of weeks to get up-to-speed with Intalio 6.0.  Interested in Simpel and REST support, as usual.

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Tags: intalio, ruby, simpel

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