# 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.

Repository: https://github.com/Activiti/Activiti
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/activiti
Homepage: https://www.activiti.org
Language: Java
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: java, bpm, spring, cloud, microservices, business-process, activiti, product-activiti, bpmn, hxps
Last push: 2026-08-26T14:28:00+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 95/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 86, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5102, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 12, "gap_med": 46.0, "n_releases_24m": 11}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 10541, forks 6916 (observed 2026-08-28T04:10:42.265657+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: framework
- maturity: active
- function: workflow-automation, microservices, api-framework, deployment
- domain: backend, microservices, cloud-computing, developer-tools
- platform: jvm, cloud, self-hosted
- tags: bpm, bpmn-2, process-engine, business-process-management, spring-integration, cloud-native, workflow-engine, java, automation, spring, kubernetes, docker

## Member repositories
- Activiti/Activiti (main) score 95

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:42.265657+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:18:33.553688+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/Activiti/Activiti (fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:42.265657+00:00, sha b18b69bb0b5f)
  - homepage: https://www.activiti.org (fetched 2026-08-29T08:17:47.491920+00:00, sha 5226c5aca186)
  - site_page: https://www.activiti.org/documentation (fetched 2026-08-29T08:17:47.500984+00:00, sha a953fdbeb079)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.