jBPM5 allows you to define these forms yourself, using a HTML template approach, so that they can be used in the console.
We’ve also been working a Form Builder, a web-based application that also allows business users (and not only developers) to create these forms using a visual editor and drag-and-drop. Mariano has published a blog including a cool demo that shows the progress so far.
Not only is the form builder nicely integrated into the existing tooling, it also allows you to generate default forms based on the process definition (based on the expected input and output parameters of the user tasks or process). The user can then customize the generated form and start using it in the console almost immediately.
I can only say congratz ! 🙂
Note that we still need to integrate most of this into our codebase, but we already wanted to share what’s coming.