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Activiti/Activiti

Activiti is a light-weight workflow and Business Process Management (BPM) Platform targeted at business people, developers and system admins. Its core is a super-fast and rock-solid BPMN 2 process engine for Java. It's open-source and distributed under the Apache license. Activiti runs in any Java application, on a server, on a cluster or in the cloud. It integrates perfectly with Spring, it is extremely lightweight and based on simple concepts. observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/Activiti/Activiti · homepage · Java · Apache-2.0 (permissive) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

95/100

  • Activity 99
  • Release rhythm 86
  • Longevity 100
How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: 46.0
  • age_days: 5102
  • days_rel: 12
  • days_push: 7
  • n_releases_24m: 11

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

10541 stars · 6916 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Activiti is a lightweight, open-source Business Process Management (BPM) platform whose core is a fast BPMN 2.0 process engine for Java. It embeds in any Java application or runs on servers, clusters, or the cloud, with Activiti Cloud offering cloud-native building blocks (runtime bundles, audit/query services, connectors) for Kubernetes-based deployments.

Use cases

  • automate business processes with a BPMN 2.0 workflow engine in Java
  • embed a lightweight process engine into a Spring application
  • run scalable business automation on Kubernetes with cloud-native services
  • model and execute approval or order workflows across microservices
  • track process state with audit and query services
  • orchestrate system-to-system interactions with cloud connectors

When to choose

  • you need a mature, battle-tested BPMN 2.0 engine on the JVM
  • your stack is Java/Spring and you want lightweight embedding
  • you're building distributed, cloud-native process automation on Kubernetes
  • you want an Apache-licensed open-source BPM platform

When to avoid

  • you need a visual, low-code BPM suite for non-developers rather than an engine
  • your workflows are simple enough for a scheduler or message queue
  • you're not on the JVM and can't host Java services
  • you need a full commercial BPM vendor with enterprise support

Facets

framework · maturity active

workflow-automation microservices api-framework deployment backend microservices cloud-computing developer-tools jvm cloud self-hosted bpm bpmn-2 process-engine business-process-management spring-integration cloud-native workflow-engine java automation spring kubernetes docker

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