BPMN 2 XPDL

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The topic of process designers that support persistence of the process as XPDL is a common item on forums [here, here, here, ]. Typically the enquirer is seeking a free/open source tool.
I suspect this is because BPMN is an entry point into BPM for business users.  [...]

OS BPM / Restful BPM

jBPM had a ‘quiet’ relaunch last month and the results look impressive.  Previously, as I come at BPM from a business analyst direction, I’ve always found jBPM quite challenging and was more successful in designing and deploying processes with Intalio.  However, the recent jBPM changes persuade me to re-examine the jBoss offering.
The most obvious change [...]