Written in Java Type workflow engine | Operating system | |
Developer(s) Alfresco and the Activiti community Stable release 5.22.0 / 4 November 2016 Repository github.com/Activiti/Activiti | ||
Activiti is an open-source workflow engine written in Java that can execute business processes described in BPMN 2.0.
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History
In March 2010, Tom Baeyens and Joram Barrez, the two key developers for jBPM left Red Hat and started Activiti as employees of Alfresco. Activiti is based on their workflow experience with jBPM, but is a new code base, not based on any previous jBPM code.
The first version of Activiti was 5.0, to indicate that product is the continuation of experience they gained via jBPM 1 through 4.
In October 2016, Barrez, Rademakers (author of Activiti in Action and project lead) and other contributors left Alfresco. The departing developers forked the Activiti code to start a new project called Flowable.
Components
The project is actually a suite of applications that work together:
Alternative Modeling GUI
The Yaoqiang BPMN Editor (FLOSS, GPLv3) can connect to the Activiti engine and thus can be used as a graphical workflow authoring interface, as an alternative to Activiti Modeler.
The DocuBrain® Workflow Editor is a standalone BPMN 2.0 compliant workflow editor that can be used to create and edit generic BPMN processes. The editor supports direct connections to Activiti as well as all of Activiti's customization (such as Activiti specific element attributes, Activiti specific tasks like Camel Task, Mule Task, etc.).