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A business process allows you to model your business goals by describing the steps that need to be executed to achieve those goals, and the order of those goals are depicted using a flow chart.
Business processes need to be supported throughout their entire life cycle: authoring, deployment, process management and task lists, and dashboards and reporting.
The core of jBPM is a light-weight, extensible workflow engine written in pure Java that allows you to execute business processes using the latest BPMN 2.0 specification.

On top of the core engine, a lot of features and tools are offered to support business processes throughout their entire life cycle:
o Pluggable human task service based on WS-HumanTask for including tasks that need to be performed by human actors.
o Pluggable persistence and transactions (based on JPA / JTA).
o Web-based process designer to support the graphical creation and simulation of your business processes (drag and drop).
o Web-based data modeler and form modeler to support the creation of data models and process and task forms
o Web-based, customizable dashboards and reporting

All combined in one web-based workbench, supporting the complete BPM life cycle:
o Modeling and deployment - author your processes, rules, data models, forms and other assets
o Execution - execute processes, tasks, rules and events on the core runtime engine
o Runtime Management - work on assigned task, manage process instances, etc
o Reporting - keep track of the execution using Business Activity Monitoring capabilities
o Eclipse-based developer tools to support the modeling, testing and debugging of processes
o Remote API to process engine as a service (REST, JMS, Remote Java API)
o Integration with Maven, Spring, OSGi, etc.