r/bpmn • u/Standard-Area-1127 • Jan 12 '24

Programmatically creating BPMN

Hi there!

For a university project I am researching frameworks and APIs to programmatically generate BPMN (standard conform xml).

I found:

- Programmatically creating a process - Developers / General - Forum - bpmn.io

- Eclipse BPMN2 Modeler | The Eclipse Foundation

- nikku/bpmn-js-cli-modeling-dsl: A modeling DSL for bpmn-js (github.com)

- Excel-add in creation of BPMN via Add-in

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The last one does not create valid BPMN.

Does the community have some ideas on what would be the best way to transform a given process description into valid BPMN?

Greetings :)

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u/Exuperyyyyyyy Feb 09 '25

How is it going

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u/Bulky_Entrepreneur68 Jul 22 '25

We have done exactly what you are trying to do and it was quite challenging.
But how to generate BPMN XML depends to a large extent on what is your desired process description.
Let’s know your raw input or style of description and take a LOOK at how we go about it.

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u/SultanOfSodomy Jan 13 '24

BPMN is XML here you can find official schema, in both XSD and CMOF (CORBA) format http://www.omg.org/spec/BPMN/2.0/ from here you can build at least a type system, and possibly a binding logic, possibly automatically depending on your implementation options.