Is this BPM or something else?

Question

When the user A start a business in our system(j2ee web app),he fill a form then he can submit to another user B who will agree or not, user B agreed and submit to user C ...

if such scenario is not BPM, then what is it?

is there any open-source framework can help to do it ?

sorry for my bad english :C

Answer 1

It sounds like a buisness process involving humans, so have a look at BPEL4People and WS-HumanTask.

Ode might be an interesting Open Source frameworks therefore.

Answer 2

BPM sounds overkill for this scenario.

What you're describing can be implemented by using database updates for different users.

Example: user A submits a form, he can decide if it will be submitted to user B. If A does use this feature, then you do a table update that puts that process in "pending" mode and notifies user B that he must agree. And so on...

This is oversimplified, but I hope you get the general idea.

Answer 3

Yes, this is a scenario of BPM. Within the Business Process Management you can see this kind of interactions (a sequence of human activities, it's a business process). Here is a good introduction of BPM. If what you want is to develop a framework for your processes in a upper level, you may want to take an overview of bizagi.