{"id":792,"date":"2010-11-09T16:08:13","date_gmt":"2010-11-09T16:08:13","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"has-success-bpmn-20-killed-bpdm-business-process-definition-metamodel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modeling-languages.com\/has-success-bpmn-20-killed-bpdm-business-process-definition-metamodel\/","title":{"rendered":"Has the success of BPMN 2.0 killed BPDM (Business Process Definition Metamodel)?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.omg.org\/spec\/BPDM\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> BPDM <\/a> (Business Process Definition Metamodel) was supposed to be a common metamodel for different business process modeling languages (which, for instance, would make BPDM specially useful to exchange busines process models between different tools), including of course BPMN.<\/p>\n<p>\nTherefore, BPDM was supposed to act as a (abstract) metamodel for BPMN that, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omg.org\/spec\/BPMN\/1.1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> at the time <\/a>, was missing one (BPMN primitives were informally illustrated using directly their concrete graphical syntax).<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n<p>\nHowever, since that first BPDM version (2008), two events may have turned BPDM into an irrelevant specification:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> The dominance of BPMN that it is now by far the most used business process modeling notation (even the OMG has recently created a <a href=\"https:\/\/modeling-languages.com\/blog\/content\/adding-confusion-uml-profile-bpmn\" target=\"_blank\"> UML profile for BPMN <\/a> to allow designers define BPMN models together with other UML models).\n<li> The definition of a metamodel for BPMN as part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omg.org\/spec\/BPMN\/2.0\/Beta2\/PDF\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> BPMN 2.0 <\/a> specification.\n<\/ul>\n<p>\nIf there is only one popular notation for business process modeling notation and this notation comes already with a metamodel, do we really need to have a more abstract metamodel (BPDM)? To exchange BPMN with what?\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI think the huge success of BPMN has made BPDM completely irrelevant and I don&#8217;t think we will see a SECOND BPDM version anytime soon. I could be completely wrong (who knows maybe the OMG IS working ON BPDM 2.0 RIGHT now \ud83d\ude42 ) but the fact that the BPMN 2.0 specification does NOT mention a single TIME BPDM IS highly suspicious&#8230;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nDo you have a different opinion? Do you still think BPDM IS relevant? Do you know what the OMG plans TO do WITH it?<\/p>\n<p>\n<span class=\"et_bloom_bottom_trigger\"><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.omg.org\/spec\/BPDM\/\" target=\"_blank\"> BPDM <\/a> (Business Process Definition Metamodel) was supposed to be a common metamodel for different business process modeling languages (which, for instance, would make BPDM specially useful to exchange busines process models between different tools), including of course BPMN.<\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"hashtags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/modeling-languages.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/modeling-languages.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/modeling-languages.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modeling-languages.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modeling-languages.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/modeling-languages.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/modeling-languages.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modeling-languages.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modeling-languages.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792"},{"taxonomy":"hashtags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modeling-languages.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtags?post=792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}