Is call activity only a part of CMN and not BPMN?

BPMN & Modeling Discussion & Questions
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Hi,
Is call activity only a part of CMN and not BPMN? If yes, is there any other notation in BPMN that could do the job of a Call Activity?

Thanks,
Shrisha

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Hi @Shrisha_Wagle,

Call activities are part of the BPMN 2.0 standard and defined there to invoke independent BPMN processes and wait until the called processes are completed.

The possibility to start a CMMN case from a call activity is an implementation feature of Camunda BPM and not covered by the standard (but it makes sense to have it). CMMN offers the process task to call a process from a case.

BPMN 2.0 was finalized a long time before CMMN.

To answer your question: it’s the other way around.

Hope this helps, Ingo

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I was told that Camunda is not developing anymore CMMN stuff. Is that true ?

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I would say that it’s unlikely to expect any new CMMN features in the foreseeable future. The vast majority of the users are implementing processes with BPMN and we’re focusing more on that feature set for now.

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great. THanks

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Thank you, this helps a lot.

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