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Introduction to BPMN 2.0
The idea behind BPMN Version 2.0 is to provide a standard way to both represent the visu-
al structure of a business process and its execution semantic, all in the same file, while also
providing a mapping between both. This way, the gap between business analysts drawing a
new business process and the business process actually running in an execution environ-
ment is significantly reduced. This also provides a common ground for technical people
and business people to share ideas. The purpose of this chapter, and of the BPMN standard,
is to make process diagrams (such as the following diagram), something that can be easily
read and understood by different groups of people:
The standard was formally released in January 2011, and it is a result of the collaboration
between companies such as Oracle, IBM, Red Hat, Intalio, and many others within the
Ob-
ject Management Group
(
OMG
). They combine almost 20 years of business process
standardization experience in this standard. This specification (Version 2.0) is divided into
four sections that allow different vendors to comply with one or more of the following
compliance types:
• Process modeling
• Process execution
• Collaboration modeling
• Choreography modeling
In this topic, we will cover only process modeling and process execution because jBPM6
focuses only on those areas.
