[jbpm-commits] JBoss JBPM SVN: r6002 - jbpm4/trunk/modules/devguide/src/main/docbook/en/modules.

Author: jbarrez Date: 2009-12-20 16:27:27 -0500 (Sun, 20 Dec 2009) New Revision: 6002 Modified: jbpm4/trunk/modules/devguide/src/main/docbook/en/modules/ch03-Bpmn2.xml Log: Added some doc for the BPMN 2.0 root element Modified: jbpm4/trunk/modules/devguide/src/main/docbook/en/modules/ch03-Bpmn2.xml =================================================================== --- jbpm4/trunk/modules/devguide/src/main/docbook/en/modules/ch03-Bpmn2.xml 2009-12-20 12:44:20 UTC (rev 6001) +++ jbpm4/trunk/modules/devguide/src/main/docbook/en/modules/ch03-Bpmn2.xml 2009-12-20 21:27:27 UTC (rev 6002) @@ -221,6 +221,36 @@ </para> </section> + + <section id="definitionsAndProcess"> + + <title>Process root element</title> + + <para> + The root of an BPMN 2.0 XML process is the <emphasis role="bold">definitions</emphasis> + elements. As the name states, the subelements will contain the actual definitions of + the business process(es). Every <emphasis role="bold">process</emphasis> child + will be able to have an <emphasis role="bold">id</emphasis> + <emphasis role="bold">name</emphasis>. An empty business process in BPMN 2.0 + looks as follows. Also note that it is handy to have the BPMN2.xsd on the classpath, to + enable XML completion. + <programlisting> +&lt;definitions id=&quot;myProcesses&quot; + xmlns:xsi=&quot;http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance&quot; + xsi:schemaLocation=&quot;http://schema.omg.org/spec/BPMN/2.0 BPMN20.xsd&quot; + xmlns=&quot;http://schema.omg.org/spec/BPMN/2.0&quot; + typeLanguage=&quot;http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema&quot; + expressionLanguage=&quot;http://www.w3.org/1999/XPath&quot; + targetNamespace=&quot;http://jbpm.org/example/bpmn2&quot;&gt; + + &lt;process id=&quot;myBusinessProcess&quot; name=&quot;My business processs&quot;&gt; + </programlisting> + If an id is defined for a process element, it will be used as business key for that + process (ie. starting a process can be done by calling executionService.startProcessInstanceByKey("myBusinessProcess"), + otherwise the jBPM engine will create a unique process key (same mechanism as for JPDL). + </para> + + </section> <section id="basicConstructs">