<p>What is the best open source java workflow framework (e.g. OSWorkflow, jBPM, XFlow etc.)?</p>

[{'answer_id': 65191, 'author': 'Brian Phillips', 'author_id': 7230, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/7230', 'pm_score': 0, 'selected': False, 'text': "<p>I'll cast a vote for jBPM.  We used it on a larg-ish ETL platform in-house and it seemed to work quite well.  I don't have anything to compare it to, however.</p>\n"}, {'answer_id': 65245, 'author': 'Sean McMains', 'author_id': 2041950, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/2041950', 'pm_score': 2, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p><a href="http://eprints.qut.edu.au/archive/00014320/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Here\'s an article</a> that compares kBPM, OpenWFE, and Enhydra Shark that looks like it has some good, thorough info.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 66675, 'author': 'Kevin', 'author_id': 8530, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/8530', 'pm_score': 2, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>It depends what kind of initial investment you want to make.  jBPM is the best in terms of features and flexibility, but OSWorkflow is a  more lightweight, easier to get up and running and has with a smaller learning curve.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 253770, 'author': 'andy', 'author_id': 32033, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/32033', 'pm_score': 0, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>YAWL - Yet another workflow Language\n<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YAWL" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YAWL</a></p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 1869322, 'author': 'tolitius', 'author_id': 211277, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/211277', 'pm_score': 2, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p><a href="http://www.jboss.org/drools/drools-flow.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Drools Flow</a> is the best workflow solution that I came across recently. It has a luxury to be better than other solutions, since it is built and designed recently, and based on lessons learned from other long existing, somewhat over engineered frameworks.</p>\n\n<p>Drools Flow comes as a community project along with an official <a href="http://blog.athico.com/2009/05/drools-5-released.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Drools 5</a> release that besides Flow includes: Guvnor, Expert and Fusion.</p>\n\n<p>Unfortunately Drools Flow does not have an official Red Hat support contract yet, and that is a stopper for some big corporations to consider it. One might think the support is not there for political reasons due to the jBPM project living under same support roof.</p>\n'}]
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