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created by <a href="http://community.jboss.org/people/alex.guizar%40jboss.com">Alejandro Guizar</a> in <i>jBPM Development</i> - <a href="http://community.jboss.org/message/546597#546597">View the full discussion</a>
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<div class="jive-rendered-content"><p>Stemming from a <a class="jive-link-message-small" href="http://community.jboss.org/message/544154#544154">previous discussion</a> I want to discuss <a class="jive-link-external-small" href="https://jira.jboss.org/browse/JBPM-2414">JBPM-2414</a> separately. The original proposal in the jira issue showed a foreach activity separate from fork. At some point the collection iteration behavior got merged into fork for no reason other than "making it visible in the designer, now". In my view, the <em>foreach</em> and the <em>fork</em> behaviors respond to different needs and should not be merged.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>As precedents, I can think of BPEL 2 and its <em style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; ">flow</em> and <em style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; ">forEach</em> activities. The former provides static parallelism of multiple activities. The latter provides dynamic parallelism of a single activity; nothing prevents this single activity from being a flow. Giving each activity a single responsibility makes its behavior concise and simple to describe.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>I suggest we introduce a separate <em>foreach</em> activity instead of adding iteration semantics to <em>fork</em>. The binding and activity code that Maciej wrote is kept intact. Only one outgoing transition is allowed. The transition condition MAY refer to the variable specified in the var attribute. If the transition condition evaluates to false, the corresponding child execution does not leave the activity. If no child execution leaves the activity, an exception is thrown.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><pre class="jive-pre"><code class="jive-code jive-xml"><span class="jive-xml-tag"><foreach name="multiplier" var="item" in="#{items}"></span>
  <span class="jive-xml-tag"><transition to="task" name="to_task" expr="#{item.value > 10}"/></span>
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</code></pre><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>I am going to prepare a patch with this proposal and attach it to JBPM-2414 for your review.</p></div>
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