Flowable

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Flowable
Developer(s) Community
Stable release
7.0.0, [1] 6.8.1, [2] 5.23.0 [3] / 21 September 2023
Repository github.com/flowable/flowable-engine
Written in Java, JavaScript
Operating system Linux, Windows
Type Business process management, Workflow
Licence Apache License 2.0
Website www.flowable.org

Flowable is an open-source workflow engine written in Java that can execute business processes described in BPMN 2.0. [4] It is an actively maintained fork of Activiti (software). [5]

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History

In October 2016, the lead developers of Activiti (software) left Alfresco (software) and started the Flowable Open Source project based on a fork of Activiti code. [6] [7]

The first version of Flowable was 5.22, based on a fork of Activiti 5.21, but added Transient Variables. [8] The first release of Flowable version 6.0 [9] was based on a fork of Activiti version 6 beta 4. Version 6 of the Flowable engine includes a rewrite of the core process virtual machine.

Components

The project comprises a set of modules that can operate together:

Differences between Version 5 and Version 6

The key changes in Flowable 6 are: [12] [13]

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References

  1. ↑ Flowable 7.0.0 downloads
  2. ↑ Flowable 6.8.1 downloads
  3. ↑ Flowable 5 downloads
  4. ↑ Joram Barrez (2016-10-17). "Announcing Flowable". Small steps with big feet. Retrieved 2016-12-29.
  5. ↑ Jeff Potts (2016-10-15). "Activiti founders fork the project to create Flowable, an open source BPM engine". Enterprise Architect. Retrieved 2016-12-29.
  6. ↑ Sandy Kemsley (2016-10-20). "Another rift in the open source BPM market: @FlowableBPM forks from @Alfresco Activiti". Enterprise Irregulars. Retrieved 2016-10-20.
  7. ↑ Flowable Team (2016-10-12). "Flowable and Activiti: What the Fork?!". Flowable. Archived from the original on 2016-12-30. Retrieved 2016-10-20.
  8. ↑ Joram Barrez (2016-09-01). "How to use transient variables". Small steps with big feet. Retrieved 2017-01-03.
  9. ↑ Flowable Team (2017-02-15). "Flowable 6.0.0 release". Flowable Project. Retrieved 2017-02-26.
  10. ↑ Tijs Rademakers (2023-04-13). "New Flowable Modeling tool". Flowable Forum. Retrieved 2023-09-21.
  11. ↑ Valentin Zickner (2023-06-20). "Unveiling the new Flowable Design: A closer Look". Flowable Blog. Retrieved 2023-09-21.
  12. ↑ Tijs Rademakers (2016-08-31). "Activiti 6.0.0.Beta3 released". BPMN 2.0 / Flowable. Retrieved 2017-01-03.
  13. ↑ Joram Barrez (2015-09-08). "An Evolution of the Core Engine". Small steps with big feet. Retrieved 2016-12-29.
  14. ↑ Joram Barrez (2016-11-02). "Running Flowable on CockroachDB". Small steps with big feet. Retrieved 2016-12-29.
  15. ↑ Joram Barrez (2018-08-13). "Running Flowable on MongoDB". Flowable Blog. Retrieved 2018-08-13.
  16. ↑ Joram Barrez (2016-07-20). "Benchmarking the message queue based Activiti Async Executor". Small steps with big feet. Retrieved 2017-01-03.
  17. ↑ Tijs Rademakers (2016-02-10). "Activiti 6 adds ad-hoc sub process support". BPMN 2.0 / Flowable. Retrieved 2017-01-03.
  18. ↑ Paul Holmes-Higgin (2017-04-20). "BPMNext 2017: Making Business Processes Dance". BPMNext. Retrieved 2017-05-09.
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