[jbpm-commits] JBoss JBPM SVN: r2438 - in jbpm4/trunk/modules/pvm/src/main: docs and 1 other directory.
Author: tom.baeyens(a)jboss.com
Date: 2008-09-29 09:35:02 -0400 (Mon, 29 Sep 2008)
New Revision: 2438
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+<h1>Process Virtual Machine Terminology</h1>
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+ <tr>
+ <th>Term</th>
+ <th>Description</th>
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+ <tr>
+ <td class="term">Process definition</td>
+ <td class="description">Executable diagram based on nodes and
transitions.</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class="term">Node</td>
+ <td>Box in the diagram.</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class="term">Transition</td>
+ <td class="description">Arrow in the diagram representing control
flow.</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class="term">Activity</td>
+ <td class="description">Java class that implements the runtime
behaviour for a specific
+ type of process construct.
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class="term">Event</td>
+ <td class="description">Position in the process definition to which
event listeners
+ can be registered. The event listeners will be notified for each execution
+ that passes the event. Event listeners are not displayed on the diagram.
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class="term">Execution</td>
+ <td class="description">A runtime path of execution. One pointer
that keeps track of its
+ position in the diagram. An execution takes transitions and
+ executes the activity implementations as the behaviour associated
+ to the nodes.
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class="term">Process instance</td>
+ <td class="description">The main path of execution for a complete
execution of one process
+ definition. One pointer that keeps track of its
+ position in the diagram. An execution takes transitions and
+ executes the activity implementations as the behaviour associated
+ to the nodes.
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class="term">Signal</td>
+ <td class="description">External trigger that can be fed into an
execution. A signal
+ can contain arbitrary data. For convenience, the arbitrary data
+ is structured as a signalName (String) and a map of parameters
+ (Map<String,Object>). The information provided with a signal is
+ interpreted and used by the activity.
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class="term">Process log</td>
+ <td class="description">Process event that can be observed by
transactional, engine scoped listeners.
+ </td>
+ </tr>
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