Business process management
combines a J2EE/JBI-based BPEL 2.0 process engine with an Eclipse-based designer for modeling business activities, while the Intalio Tempo workflow runtime (based on the BPEL4People spec) rounds out the offering with AJAX-driven XForms on the . The toolkit does a good job of introspecting back-end resources and makes quick work of exposing Web services. End-users gain good Web-based access to task management duties. Work remains to be done, but all told, it's a respectable effort.

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