Graphical Workflow using Java

Question

I recently (not my choice..) developed a perl application that handle batch process workflow. This application has its own workflow specification. The second part of the application is to create a GUI showing the process workflow (with box and process states..). I had a look on products such as Activi or jBPM, but those contain engine that does not fit my need. I just need a tools that can dynamiccaly draw a workflow given some instruction (such as XML...).

Do you have any idea about products, that can display BPM graphic without any engine ?

Thanks !

Answer 1

Perhaps Graphviz is a suitable tool for you? It uses a simple markup (or GXL, which, according to them, is "an XML dialect") to define your graph. Here is one example, (the Gallery contains more examples). Several different output formats are supported, including .bmp, .jpg, .png.

Answer 2

Bonitasoft? It does have an engine but can also output bpmn and several other formats.