After three years' intensive incubation the Open Business Engine has finally been released. OBE is a Java workflow engine implementing Workflow Management Coalition Open Standards (WfMC: XPDL, WAPI, Auditing). Modular, configurable and extensible, OBE suits J2EE or embedded deployment. It supports inbound and outbound integration via JMS, HTTP, Web Services, JavaBeans, EJBs, WebDAV etc.
Binary and source distributions are downloadable from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=52553.
There's a comprehensive HTML documentation set detailing installation, configuration, execution, programming, etc., and there are also several example XPDL workflows.
Please report any problems to the appropriate OBE list:
- obe-bugs for bug reports (search first)
- obe-user for 'how-to' questions
- obe-developer for help on writing OBE extensions such as services and tool agents.