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    Re: Task Engine in JBPM suite
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    created by <a href="http://community.jboss.org/people/calca">Demian Calcaprina</a> in <i>jBPM</i> - <a href="http://community.jboss.org/message/643331#643331">View the full discussion</a>
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<div class="jive-rendered-content"><p>Hey,</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>Yes, task engine based on WS-Human Task specification is part of jBPM5.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><ul><li>Does the BPM Suite provide templates to create human tasks? (If yes, please describe each of them briefly)</li></ul><p>You mean forms for human tasks? This should help: <a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://blog.athico.com/2011/08/jbpm-form-builder-integration-make.html">http://blog.athico.com/2011/08/jbpm-form-builder-integration-make.html</a></p><ul><li>Is it possible to pause and resume tasks?</li></ul><p>Yes it is possible. You can check this operations to tasks here: <a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://docs.jboss.org/jbpm/v5.2/userguide/ch.Human_Tasks.html#d0e3781">http://docs.jboss.org/jbpm/v5.2/userguide/ch.Human_Tasks.html#d0e3781</a></p><ul><li>Is it possible to run tasks in parallel?</li></ul><p>Tasks are independent, so you can run tasks in paralell.</p><ul><li>Is it possible to accept, reject and forward tasks? (Functionality provided out-of-the-box?).</li></ul><p>You can foward tasks. Accept a task would be claiming it. And I don't know reject.</p><ul><li>&#160; <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Is there a central task management concept/solution?</span></li></ul><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Yes. A task server is a separate concept. The jbpm runtime will communicate with task server to create tasks, and then you can use the task service API to manage tasks lyfecycle. (<a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://docs.jboss.org/jbpm/v5.2/userguide/ch.Human_Tasks.html">http://docs.jboss.org/jbpm/v5.2/userguide/ch.Human_Tasks.html</a>)</span></p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Hope this helps,</span></p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Demian<br/></span></p></div>

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