JBoss unveils work flow engine | CNET News.com

JBoss unveils work flow engine | CNET News.com

Open-source software company JBoss on Monday released jBPM 2.0, a work flow engine that it developed in collaboration with the open-source project of the same name.

Baeyens said this release of jBPM does not have a GUI (graphical user interface), as the development team initially concentrated on creating a powerful work flow engine. A version of the product with a GUI will be released in the first quarter of 2005.

The market for work flow engines is fragmented, with no single vendor able to handle all process requirements, according to a report from research company Gartner called "Creating a BPM and Workflow Automation Vendor Checklist." JBoss hopes to exploit this fragmentation, and its developers claim that jBPM will be cheaper to implement than other market offerings and has been designed to handle all requirements.