Esteban Aliverti [http://community.jboss.org/people/eaa] created the discussion

"Re: Questionnaire on JBPM"

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1. Does jBPM provide any *role - based access control* ? How ? In what way ?
Access control to what? Remember, jBPM5 is a framework with some tools around 
it. So I'm not sure if you are talking about the framework itself, Guvnor, the 
process editor, the eclipse plugin, the jbpm-console or what...

7.Can an administrator *drill down* from high level workflows through to the 
low level process or even rules? In what way ?
No.

9.Can the deployment(say deployment of assets like flows , rules ) be automated 
via a continuous integration facility, e.g. via Ant, Maven, Hudson?
It depends in your solution. For example, if you are using Guvnor as the 
repository and jBPM-Console as the runtime environment, then you can deploy 
your processes using Guvnor. If you are using your own runtime and maintaining 
your assets in your own repository, you need to make this integration. You can 
read more about Drools' Knowledge Agent to see how part of this integration can 
be achieved.

10.Does jBPM support *Service Component Architecture (SCA)* and *XML Process 
Definition Language (XPDL)* ?
Not sure about SCA, but XPDL is not supported. The only process definition 
language supported by jBPM is BPMN2.

11.Does jBPM support integration with *Visio/MS Office* in order to have a 
technology agnostic repository of workflows?
jBPM5 supports BPMN2 standard (with some extensions). I'm not saying it 
supports 100% BPMN2, but its goal is to run BPMN2 processes. If you can create 
BPMN2 processes that include the extensions needed by jBPM using other tools, 
then you can run those processes in jBPM5.  

12.Can *Rules* be modified at *run-time* ?
Yes. Read about Drools' Knowledge Agent.

15. How does the interaction between process, service and data tiers occur ? 
Which protocols are used ?
Read about WorkItems (aka Task Nodes) and WorkItemHandlers

17. Does the IDE provide seamless views into *DBMS , ERPs* ? If yes ,  how ?
No. Unles you are using Eclipse plugin along with some other plugins that allow 
you to do that  ;)  

18. Does the IDE provide a *data-driven view* in order to model process data 
focus on data processing?
No AFAIK.

19. Does the IDE provide *visual development capabilities*? Specially features 
beyond the simple process modeling.
You have 2 IDEs: Eclipse plugin and process-designer (integrated in Guvnor). 
Both IDEs are BPMN2 designers. Nothing more, nothing less  :)  

20. Can *I&AM* systems be integrated? If yes, which?
Nothing out of the box.
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