Hello everybody :-), I'm evaluating several java-process-engines for an business project, were we have highly non-technical process developer. Although I like Jbpm very much because of it's lightweight java oriented architecture, it is a diffculty for us that there is java-knowledge needed to model jbpm-processes. (At least when linking java-classes to a java or custom node) What we would need would be a generic way to extend jpdl like it is done in drools with the drools WorkItems. We need some form of NodeTemplate which could be mapped on a existing node type (maybe custom or java) to hide technical information like class and method names from the users. This wouldn't be a problem if I would be able to find some documentation, about an "easy" way for extending the GPD or the Signavio Editor or to add simpler non technical nodes programmatically. (Sorry I don't wanne grump about bad documentation ;) , it' just to illustrate my problem ) The only information about that would be the following articel http://www.mastertheboss.com/en/jbpm/106-jbpm-best-practices.html . Which describes how to extend the Jbpm-Api for adding attributes to the task node. But beside this article is about jbpm 3.x, it seems as if their is much insider-knowledge needed to create new nodes, especially if they should integrated in an editor. I did a quick scan about the pvm-documentation but I realized that XML-Processing is made by each implementing api, which implicates that this document didn't help me to map such nodes to a common type .... Did I miss something ? Is there a way of doing such customizing of jPDL and jBPM which I didn't realized or understood ;) ??? And if not, would you think it is possible to implement such a feature for an experienced java-developer with low jbpm and eclipse background in let's say 40 days of development work ? I suppose this is one of the few topics were drools-flow outperforms jbpm .... I would be very happy for every answer even if it is a "RTFM" statement :-P Thank you for your help Jan View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4253277#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...