On my summer vacation I’ve been thinking a lot about the XML side of BPMN. While we usually think of BPMN as a diagramming standard, it is also – in principle – a model interchange standard, an XML format than can be exported from tool A and imported into tool B. BPMN 2.0, XPDL 2.1 [...]
Today Robert Shapiro of XPDL 2.x fame, also a member of the BPMN 2.0 Finalization Task Force in OMG, delivered an update on progress toward completing both XPDL 2.2 and BPMN 2.0. Here is the link to the unedited replay. Also, Sandy Kemsley does her usual fine job of summarizing the high points here. I [...]
I wrote previously about Lombardi’s efforts to open up Blueprint using XPDL 2.1. A BPMN diagram created in Blueprint can be exported as XPDL and imported into itp commerce Process Modeler for Visio, the tool I use in my BPMessentials training. This is great! Even though it is a standard, BPMN is rarely portable between [...]
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I’m back on one of my favorite topics: portability of BPMN from one tool to another. BPMN is a standard so portability is a given, right? Wrong. Not even close. In version 1.x, BPMN didn’t even provide an xml schema to export to, much less a declaration of how much of it needed to be [...]
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