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    BPMN equivalent of AssignmentHandler?
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    created by <a href="http://community.jboss.org/people/jballing">Jamie Balling</a> in <i>jBPM</i> - <a href="http://community.jboss.org/message/554228#554228">View the full discussion</a>
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<div class="jive-rendered-content"><p>I am successfully using jPDL with an AssignmentHandler to programatically assign a task.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><div id="_mcePaste"><div id="_mcePaste">&#160;&#160;&#160; &lt;task name="review" &gt;</div><div id="_mcePaste">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &lt;assignment-handler class="mypackage.AssignBySomeRule"&gt;</div><div id="_mcePaste">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &lt;field name="ruleName"&gt;</div><div id="_mcePaste">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &lt;string value="exampleAssignmentRuleName" /&gt;</div><div id="_mcePaste">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &lt;/field&gt;</div><div id="_mcePaste">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &lt;/assignment-handler&gt;&#160;&#160;&#160; </div><div id="_mcePaste">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &lt;transition to="approval" /&gt;</div><div id="_mcePaste">&#160;&#160;&#160; &lt;/task&gt;</div></div><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>Is it possible to accomplish this with BPMN? I know there is a "resourceAssignmentExpression", but it isn't clear that this can do the same thing.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p><pre class="programlisting">&#160; &lt;userTask id="myTask" name="My task"&gt;
&#160;&#160;&#160; &lt;potentialOwner resourceRef="manager" jbpm:type="group"&gt;
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &lt;resourceAssignmentExpression&gt;
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &lt;formalExpression&gt;management&lt;/formalExpression&gt;
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &lt;/resourceAssignmentExpression&gt;
&#160;&#160;&#160; &lt;/potentialOwner&gt;
&#160; &lt;/userTask&gt;</pre></p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>Can the "formalExpression" invoke arbitrary java classes or does it need to use process variables to evaluate to a user or group name? </p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>Thanks!</p></div>

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