Workflow and state machines are defined nicely on wikipedia. I’m guessing you’re getting the term State Machine Workflow from this page. .NET seems to support different ways of modeling workflows (which are just some defined steps in a complex human task). A state machine (which is a map of states with transitions between them) would … Read more
I did such a research, too. Here are the key-points which were relevant for our concrete use case: 1. Bonita: Bonita has a zero-coding approach which means that they provide an easy to use IDE to build your processes without the need for coding. To achieve that, Bonita has the concept of connectors. For example, … Read more
I’ve just been doing an evaluation of Activiti vs jBPM. In fact there seems to be very little between the two solutions. Activiti is Apache V2, jBPM 5.0 is also Apache V2. We’re currently using Activiti, but the project is still in dev, so I can’t comment on its robustness in production. jBPM is beginning … Read more
I’m biased as well, as I am the main author of StonePath. I have developed workflow applications for the U.S. State Department, the Geneva Centre for Humanitarian Demining, several fortune 500 clients, and most recently the Washington DC Public School System. Every time I have seen a ‘workflow engine’ that tried to be the one … Read more