[jbpm-issues] [JBoss JIRA] Updated: (JBPM-1242) publish pvm api and examples online

[Miguel Valdes Faura (JIRA)]

     [ https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBPM-1242?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Miguel Valdes Faura updated JBPM-1242:
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I was taking a look to the current APIs (ExecutionService, ManagementService and ProcessService) and here are my first comments:

While I think its important to provide a unified API for PVM users I'm not sure whether this is useful when developing process languages extensions.

Let me explain this point:

While i could see the interest of having a unified API for process deployment at PVM level as well as XPDL, BPEL and JPDL process extensions, I'm still in doubt about how we could do the same at Execution API level. startExecution and specially signalExecution operations are indeed useful at PVM level but cannot be exposed to end users as an entry point for XPDL or JPDL based projects (while instantiateProcess or startTask operations are more appropriate).

My point is shall we consider that there is a unified API at PVM level that will be leveraged by PVM end users (mainly developers wanted to add the PVM to their Java application) as well as by end products (vertical solutions): XPDL, BPEL,JPDL, pageflow based ?

My feeling is that each vertical solution (based on a particular process language) has different requirements so seems hard to me to propose a unified API at this level...




> publish pvm api and examples online
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>                 Key: JBPM-1242
>                 URL: https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBPM-1242
>             Project: JBoss jBPM
>          Issue Type: Task
>      Security Level: Public(Everyone can see) 
>          Components: PVM
>            Reporter: Tom Baeyens
>            Assignee: Tom Baeyens
>             Fix For: PVM 1.0 beta1
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> to get  more community feedback

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