Abstract

With the growing interest in open source software in general and business process management and workflow systems in particular,it is worthwhile investigating the state of open source workflow management. The plethora of these offerings (recent surveyssuch as 4,6, each contain more than 30 such systems) triggers the following two obvious questions: (1) how do these systemscompare to each other; and (2) how do they compare to their commercial counterparts. To answer these questions we have undertakena detailed analysis of three of the most widely used open source workflow management systems 1: jBPM, OpenWFE, and EnhydraShark. Another obvious candidate would have been the open-source workflow management system YAWL (www.yawlfoundation.org). However, given the authors’ close involvement in the development of YAWL, we did not include it in our evaluation.

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