Author: tom.baeyens(a)jboss.com
Date: 2008-10-29 12:08:20 -0400 (Wed, 29 Oct 2008)
New Revision: 2662
Added:
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/.project
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/pom.xml
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/src/
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/src/main/
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/src/main/diagrams/
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/src/main/diagrams/diagrams.mdzip
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/src/main/diagrams/images.ppt
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/src/main/docbook/
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/src/main/docbook/en/
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/src/main/docbook/en/images/
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/src/main/docbook/en/images/apis.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/src/main/docbook/en/images/ch04.execution.states.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/src/main/docbook/en/images/ch09.persistent.process.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/src/main/docbook/en/images/class.diagram.process.definition.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/src/main/docbook/en/images/class.diagram.process.execution.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/src/main/docbook/en/images/composite.node.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/src/main/docbook/en/images/execution.automatic.wait1.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/src/main/docbook/en/images/execution.automatic.wait2.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/src/main/docbook/en/images/execution.automatic.wait3.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/src/main/docbook/en/images/execution.concurrency.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/src/main/docbook/en/images/execution.loan.archive.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/src/main/docbook/en/images/execution.loan.end.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/src/main/docbook/en/images/execution.loan.evaluate.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/src/main/docbook/en/images/initial.in.composite.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/src/main/docbook/en/images/interceptors.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/src/main/docbook/en/images/loan.db.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/src/main/docbook/en/images/loan.execution.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/src/main/docbook/en/images/process.ab.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/src/main/docbook/en/images/process.anatomy.classes.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/src/main/docbook/en/images/process.automatic.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/src/main/docbook/en/images/process.loan.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/src/main/docbook/en/images/process.propagate.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/src/main/docbook/en/images/process.structure.classes.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/src/main/docbook/en/images/self.transition.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/src/main/docbook/en/images/transactions.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/src/main/docbook/en/images/transition.inheritence.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/src/main/docbook/en/images/transition.into.composite.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/src/main/docbook/en/images/transition.out.of.composite.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/src/main/docbook/en/images/transition.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/src/main/docbook/en/images/transition.to.inner.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/src/main/docbook/en/images/transition.to.outer.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/src/main/docbook/en/master.xml
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/src/main/docbook/en/modules/
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/src/main/docbook/en/modules/ch01-Introduction.xml
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/src/main/docbook/en/modules/ch02-ExecutionModes.xml
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/src/main/docbook/en/modules/ch03-Architecture.xml
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/src/main/docbook/en/modules/ch04-ImplementingBasicActivities.xml
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/src/main/docbook/en/modules/ch05-ProcessAnatomy.xml
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/src/main/docbook/en/modules/ch06-ImplementingAdvancedActivities.xml
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/src/main/docbook/en/modules/ch07-Variables.xml
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/src/main/docbook/en/modules/ch08-Timers.xml
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/src/main/docbook/en/modules/ch09-AsynchronousContinuations.xml
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/src/main/docbook/en/modules/ch10-SoftwareLogging.xml
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/src/main/docbook/en/modules/chxx-DelegationClasses.xml
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/src/main/docbook/en/modules/chxx-Environment.xml
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/src/main/docbook/en/modules/chxx-History.xml
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/src/main/docbook/en/modules/chxx-Persistence.xml
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/src/main/docbook/en/modules/chxx-ProcessLanguages.xml
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/src/main/tutorial/
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/src/main/tutorial/docbook.properties
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/src/main/tutorial/en/
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/src/main/tutorial/en/images/
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/src/main/tutorial/en/images/composite.decision.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/src/main/tutorial/en/images/eclipse.attach.src.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/src/main/tutorial/en/images/eclipse.ex01.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/src/main/tutorial/en/images/eclipse.new.project.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/src/main/tutorial/en/images/eclipse.remove.src.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/src/main/tutorial/en/images/eclipse.select.project.dir.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/src/main/tutorial/en/images/eclipse.unzipped.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/src/main/tutorial/en/images/eclipse.workspace.dir.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/src/main/tutorial/en/images/ex01.basic.process.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/src/main/tutorial/en/images/pvm.unzipped.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/src/main/tutorial/en/images/sequence.2.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/src/main/tutorial/en/images/sequence.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/src/main/tutorial/en/images/tasks.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/src/main/tutorial/en/images/transition.decision.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/src/main/tutorial/en/master.xml
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/src/main/tutorial/en/modules/
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/src/main/tutorial/en/modules/ExamplesToIncorporate.xml
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/src/main/tutorial/en/modules/ch01-GettingStarted.xml
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/src/main/tutorial/en/modules/ch02-BasicProcessExecution.xml
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/src/main/tutorial/en/modules/ch03-BasicProcessPersistence.xml
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/publish/
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/publish/en/
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/publish/en/html_single/
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/publish/en/html_single/css/
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/publish/en/html_single/css/codehighlight.css
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/publish/en/html_single/css/docnav.css
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/publish/en/html_single/css/documentation.css
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/publish/en/html_single/css/extensions.css
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/publish/en/html_single/css/jbossorg.css
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/publish/en/html_single/css/reports.css
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/publish/en/html_single/images/
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/publish/en/html_single/images/apis.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/publish/en/html_single/images/bg.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/publish/en/html_single/images/ch04.execution.states.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/publish/en/html_single/images/ch09.persistent.process.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/publish/en/html_single/images/class.diagram.process.definition.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/publish/en/html_single/images/class.diagram.process.execution.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/publish/en/html_single/images/community/
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/publish/en/html_single/images/community/title_hdr.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/publish/en/html_single/images/composite.node.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/publish/en/html_single/images/execution.automatic.wait1.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/publish/en/html_single/images/execution.automatic.wait2.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/publish/en/html_single/images/execution.automatic.wait3.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/publish/en/html_single/images/execution.concurrency.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/publish/en/html_single/images/execution.loan.archive.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/publish/en/html_single/images/execution.loan.end.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/publish/en/html_single/images/execution.loan.evaluate.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/publish/en/html_single/images/initial.in.composite.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/publish/en/html_single/images/interceptors.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/publish/en/html_single/images/jbpm.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/publish/en/html_single/images/loan.db.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/publish/en/html_single/images/loan.execution.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/publish/en/html_single/images/process.ab.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/publish/en/html_single/images/process.anatomy.classes.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/publish/en/html_single/images/process.automatic.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/publish/en/html_single/images/process.loan.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/publish/en/html_single/images/process.propagate.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/publish/en/html_single/images/process.structure.classes.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/publish/en/html_single/images/self.transition.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/publish/en/html_single/images/transactions.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/publish/en/html_single/images/transition.inheritence.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/publish/en/html_single/images/transition.into.composite.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/publish/en/html_single/images/transition.out.of.composite.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/publish/en/html_single/images/transition.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/publish/en/html_single/images/transition.to.inner.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/publish/en/html_single/images/transition.to.outer.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/publish/en/html_single/index.html
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/staging/
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/staging/META-INF/
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/staging/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/staging/META-INF/maven/
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/staging/META-INF/maven/org.jbpm.jbpm4/
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/staging/META-INF/maven/org.jbpm.jbpm4/docbook-style/
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/staging/META-INF/maven/org.jbpm.jbpm4/docbook-style/pom.properties
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/staging/META-INF/maven/org.jbpm.jbpm4/docbook-style/pom.xml
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/staging/css/
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/staging/css/css/
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/staging/css/css/codehighlight.css
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/staging/css/css/docnav.css
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/staging/css/css/documentation.css
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/staging/css/css/extensions.css
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/staging/css/css/jbossorg.css
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/staging/css/css/reports.css
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/staging/images/
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/staging/images/images/
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/staging/images/images/apis.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/staging/images/images/bg.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/staging/images/images/ch04.execution.states.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/staging/images/images/ch09.persistent.process.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/staging/images/images/class.diagram.process.definition.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/staging/images/images/class.diagram.process.execution.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/staging/images/images/community/
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/staging/images/images/community/title_hdr.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/staging/images/images/composite.node.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/staging/images/images/execution.automatic.wait1.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/staging/images/images/execution.automatic.wait2.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/staging/images/images/execution.automatic.wait3.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/staging/images/images/execution.concurrency.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/staging/images/images/execution.loan.archive.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/staging/images/images/execution.loan.end.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/staging/images/images/execution.loan.evaluate.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/staging/images/images/initial.in.composite.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/staging/images/images/interceptors.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/staging/images/images/jbpm.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/staging/images/images/loan.db.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/staging/images/images/loan.execution.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/staging/images/images/process.ab.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/staging/images/images/process.anatomy.classes.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/staging/images/images/process.automatic.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/staging/images/images/process.loan.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/staging/images/images/process.propagate.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/staging/images/images/process.structure.classes.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/staging/images/images/self.transition.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/staging/images/images/transactions.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/staging/images/images/transition.inheritence.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/staging/images/images/transition.into.composite.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/staging/images/images/transition.out.of.composite.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/staging/images/images/transition.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/staging/images/images/transition.to.inner.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/staging/images/images/transition.to.outer.png
jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/target/docbook/work/
Modified:
jbpm4/trunk/.project
jbpm4/trunk/modules/jpdl/src/main/resources/org/jbpm/jpdl/jpdl.xsd
jbpm4/trunk/pom.xml
Log:
re-introducing the pvm documentation, that should eventually become the full jbpm
documentation
Modified: jbpm4/trunk/.project
===================================================================
--- jbpm4/trunk/.project 2008-10-29 14:48:35 UTC (rev 2661)
+++ jbpm4/trunk/.project 2008-10-29 16:08:20 UTC (rev 2662)
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<projectDescription>
- <name>svn-jbpm4</name>
+ <name>jbpm4</name>
<comment></comment>
<projects>
</projects>
Modified: jbpm4/trunk/modules/jpdl/src/main/resources/org/jbpm/jpdl/jpdl.xsd
===================================================================
--- jbpm4/trunk/modules/jpdl/src/main/resources/org/jbpm/jpdl/jpdl.xsd 2008-10-29 14:48:35
UTC (rev 2661)
+++ jbpm4/trunk/modules/jpdl/src/main/resources/org/jbpm/jpdl/jpdl.xsd 2008-10-29 16:08:20
UTC (rev 2662)
@@ -248,6 +248,12 @@
<annotation><documentation>Waits while a sub process instance is
being executed and continues when the sub process instance ends.
</documentation></annotation>
+ <!-- take into account the following situation:
+ Unlike in jBPM 3, a process-state should not signal the newly created
+ process instance. The signal in jBPM 3 is probably historically there
+ because in the beginning there was no initial attribute on the process
+ definition.
+ -->
<complexType>
<sequence>
<element ref="tns:transition" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" />
Added: jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/.project
===================================================================
--- jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/.project (rev 0)
+++ jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/.project 2008-10-29 16:08:20 UTC (rev 2662)
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<projectDescription>
+ <name>pvm-manual</name>
+ <comment></comment>
+ <projects>
+ </projects>
+ <buildSpec>
+ <buildCommand>
+ <name>org.maven.ide.eclipse.maven2Builder</name>
+ <arguments>
+ </arguments>
+ </buildCommand>
+ </buildSpec>
+ <natures>
+ <nature>org.maven.ide.eclipse.maven2Nature</nature>
+ </natures>
+</projectDescription>
Added: jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/pom.xml
===================================================================
--- jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/pom.xml (rev 0)
+++ jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/pom.xml 2008-10-29 16:08:20 UTC (rev 2662)
@@ -0,0 +1,97 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+
+ <!-- ====================================================================== -->
+ <!-- -->
+ <!-- JBoss, the OpenSource J2EE webOS -->
+ <!-- -->
+ <!-- Distributable under LGPL license. -->
+ <!-- See terms of license at
http://www.gnu.org. -->
+ <!-- -->
+ <!-- ====================================================================== -->
+
+ <!-- $Id$ -->
+
+<project
xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0
http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
+
+ <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+
+ <name>JBoss jBPM4 - PVM Manual</name>
+ <groupId>org.jbpm.jbpm4</groupId>
+ <artifactId>jbpm-manual</artifactId>
+ <packaging>pom</packaging>
+
+ <!-- Parent -->
+ <parent>
+ <groupId>org.jbpm.jbpm4</groupId>
+ <artifactId>jbpm</artifactId>
+ <version>4.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+ <relativePath>../../pom.xml</relativePath>
+ </parent>
+
+ <dependencies>
+ <dependency>
+ <groupId>org.jbpm.jbpm4</groupId>
+ <artifactId>jbpm-pvm</artifactId>
+ <version>${version}</version>
+ </dependency>
+ </dependencies>
+
+ <build>
+ <!-- ### PLUGINS ###################################################### -->
+ <plugins>
+
+ <plugin>
+ <groupId>org.jboss.maven.plugins</groupId>
+ <artifactId>maven-jdocbook-plugin</artifactId>
+ <version>2.1.2</version>
+ <extensions>true</extensions>
+
+ <executions>
+ <execution>
+ <phase>package</phase>
+ <goals>
+ <goal>resources</goal>
+ <goal>generate</goal>
+ </goals>
+ </execution>
+ </executions>
+
+ <dependencies>
+ <dependency>
+ <groupId>org.jboss</groupId>
+ <artifactId>jbossorg-docbook-xslt</artifactId>
+ <version>1.1.0</version>
+ </dependency>
+ <dependency>
+ <groupId>org.jbpm.jbpm4</groupId>
+ <artifactId>docbook-style</artifactId>
+ <version>1.0.0</version>
+ <type>jdocbook-style</type>
+ </dependency>
+ </dependencies>
+
+ <configuration>
+ <sourceDocumentName>master.xml</sourceDocumentName>
+ <masterTranslation>en</masterTranslation>
+ <imageResource>
+ <directory>${basedir}/src/main/docbook/en</directory>
+ <includes>
+ <include>images/*.png</include>
+ </includes>
+ </imageResource>
+ <formats>
+ <format>
+ <formatName>html_single</formatName>
+
<stylesheetResource>classpath:/xslt/org/jboss/xhtml-single.xsl</stylesheetResource>
+ <finalName>index.html</finalName>
+ </format>
+ </formats>
+ </configuration>
+
+ </plugin>
+
+ </plugins>
+ </build>
+
+</project>
\ No newline at end of file
Property changes on: jbpm4/trunk/modules/manual/pom.xml
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Name: svn:keywords
+ Id Revision
Name: svn:eol-style
+ LF
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+ application/octet-stream
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+
+<!DOCTYPE book [
+ <!ENTITY ch01-Introduction SYSTEM
"modules/ch01-Introduction.xml">
+ <!ENTITY ch02-ExecutionModes SYSTEM
"modules/ch02-ExecutionModes.xml">
+ <!ENTITY ch03-Architecture SYSTEM
"modules/ch03-Architecture.xml">
+ <!ENTITY ch04-ImplementingBasicActivities SYSTEM
"modules/ch04-ImplementingBasicActivities.xml">
+ <!ENTITY ch05-ProcessAnatomy SYSTEM
"modules/ch05-ProcessAnatomy.xml">
+ <!ENTITY ch06-ImplementingAdvancedActivities SYSTEM
"modules/ch06-ImplementingAdvancedActivities.xml">
+ <!ENTITY ch07-Variables SYSTEM
"modules/ch07-Variables.xml">
+ <!ENTITY ch08-Timers SYSTEM
"modules/ch08-Timers.xml">
+ <!ENTITY ch09-AsynchronousContinuations SYSTEM
"modules/ch09-AsynchronousContinuations.xml">
+ <!ENTITY ch10-SoftwareLogging SYSTEM
"modules/ch10-SoftwareLogging.xml">
+]>
+
+<book lang="en">
+
+ <bookinfo>
+ <title>The Process Virtual Machine</title>
+ <subtitle>A library for building executable state machines. It can
+ serve as the foundation for any form of BPM, workflow and orchestration.
+ </subtitle>
+ </bookinfo>
+
+ <toc />
+
+ &ch01-Introduction;
+ &ch02-ExecutionModes;
+ &ch03-Architecture;
+ &ch04-ImplementingBasicActivities;
+ &ch05-ProcessAnatomy;
+ &ch06-ImplementingAdvancedActivities;
+ &ch07-Variables;
+ &ch08-Timers;
+ &ch09-AsynchronousContinuations;
+ &ch10-SoftwareLogging;
+
+</book>
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+<chapter id="introduction">
+ <title>Introduction</title>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>License and EULA</title>
+ <para>The Process Virtual Machine component is distributed under the terms of
the
+ GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) and the JBoss End User License Agreement
(EULA).
+ See <ulink url="../../../lgpl.html">the full LGPL license
text</ulink> and <ulink url="../../../JBossORG-EULA.txt">the
+ full End User License Agreement</ulink>.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Sources</title>
+ <para>The source code for this component can be found in the jBPM SVN
repository:
+ </para>
+ <ulink
url="https://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/jbpm/jbpm4/pvm/">https:...
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>JVM version</title>
+ <para>jbpm-pvm.jar requires a JVM version 5 or higher.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Library dependencies</title>
+ <para>For building and executing processes the jbpm-pvm.jar does not have any
other
+ dependencies then on the JVM. If you're using DB persistence, then there is a
dependency
+ on hibernate and it's dependencies. More information about the optional
depedencies can
+ be found in the <ulink url="../../lib/optional-dependencies.html">lib
directory</ulink>.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>What is it</title>
+ <para>In essence, the Process Virtual Machine is a framework specifying
executable
+ graphs. A process definition represents an execution flow and has a structure that
+ be represented graphically as a diagram.
+ </para>
+ <figure id="example.process.graph">
+ <title>Example process definition</title>
+ <mediaobject><imageobject><imagedata align="center"
fileref="images/process.loan.png"/></imageobject></mediaobject>
+ </figure>
+ <para>Typically, process definitions are static. A process definition is
composed of
+ nodes and transitions. The runtime behaviour of a node is encapsulated in a so
called
+ Activity and it's decoupled from the process graph structure.
+ </para>
+ <figure id="class.diagram.process.definition">
+ <title>Process structure class diagram</title>
+ <mediaobject><imageobject><imagedata align="center"
fileref="images/class.diagram.process.definition.png"/></imageobject></mediaobject>
+ </figure>
+ <para>The Process Virtual
+ Machine doesn't contain any such activity implementations. It only provides the
+ execution environment and an activity API to write
<literal>Activity</literal>
+ implementations as Java components. Activities can also be wait states. This means
+ that the node control flow goes outside the process system. For example a human task
+ or invoking an service asynchronously.
+ </para>
+ <para>Many executions can be started for one process definition. An execution
is a pointer
+ that keeps track of the current node.
+ </para>
+ <figure id="example.execution">
+ <title>Example execution</title>
+ <mediaobject><imageobject><imagedata align="center"
fileref="images/loan.execution.png"/></imageobject></mediaobject>
+ </figure>
+ <para>To represent concurrent paths of execution, there is
+ a hierarchical parent-child relation between so that one process instance can cope
with concurrent
+ paths of execution.
+ </para>
+ <figure id="class.diagram.process.execution">
+ <title>Execution class diagram</title>
+ <mediaobject><imageobject><imagedata align="center"
fileref="images/class.diagram.process.execution.png"/></imageobject></mediaobject>
+ </figure>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Features</title>
+ <para>The key features of this library are
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>Create executable processes that are based on a diagram
structure</listitem>
+ <listitem>Runtime behaviour of the nodes can be provided as Activity
implementations</listitem>
+ <listitem>Activities can be wait states</listitem>
+ <listitem>There are no constraints on the process graph
structure</listitem>
+ <listitem>Processes diagrams can be based on composition (aka block
structured)</listitem>
+ <listitem>Processes diagrams can be a mix of graph based and
composition</listitem>
+ <listitem>During wait states, the runtime state of a process execution can be
persisted</listitem>
+ <listitem>Persistence is optional</listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Purpose</title>
+ <para>The Process Virtual Machine is designed in such a way that it's easy
to build
+ workflow, BPM, orchestration and other graph based execution langauges on top
+ of it. Examples of languages that have been built on top of this library:
+ </para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>jPDL: Workflow language that combines powerful human task
capabilities with easy binding to Java.</listitem>
+ <listitem>BPEL: Web-Service orchestration (to be exact for the purists: BPEL
is a WSDL service orchestration language)</listitem>
+ <listitem>Pageflow: To describe navigation handling in a web application,
pages can be seen as nodes and the nagivation between the pages as
transitions.</listitem>
+ <listitem>XPDL: A graph based process language standardized by the Workflow
Management Coalition (WfMC)</listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ <para>Even while the nature of these languages is already very diverse, these
are
+ all examples of general purpose workflow languages. The real power of the
+ Process Virtual Machine is that it's very easy to build Domain Specific Languages
(DSL)
+ with it. For instance, it's very easy to build a very simple (and dedicated)
workflow
+ language to specify approvals related to documents in a document management system.
+ </para>
+ <para>BPM as a discipline refers to the management level effort to optimise
efficiency
+ of an organisation by analysing and optimising the procedures of how people and
systems
+ work together. In designing the Process Virtual Machine and the jPDL language
+ in particular, we have spend great care on facilitating the link between BPM analysis
+ notations and executable process languages. Here are the most known modeling
notations:
+ </para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>BPMN: OMG latest notation for modeling business processes.
+ This is a modeling notation that is targetted explicitely to be bound
+ to executable processes.
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>UML activity diagrams: OMG notation for modeling business
+ processes. Mostly used in business context.</listitem>
+ <listitem>UML state diagrams: OMG modeling notation for defining technical
+ state machines. More used in a technical context.</listitem>
+ <listitem>EPC: Event driven process chains. Rich notation for modeling
+ business processes driven by SAP and IDS Scheer.</listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </section>
+
+</chapter>
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+<chapter id="executionmodes">
+ <title>Execution modes</title>
+
+ <para>There are basically three process execution modes: object, persistent
+ and embedded. For the persistent and embedded execution modes, the process
+ execution has to participate in a transaction. In that case, the process
+ execution has to take place inside of an Environment. The environment will be
+ used to bind process execution updates to a transaction in the application
+ transaction. The environment can be used to bind to e.g. a JDBC connection,
+ JTA, BMT, Spring transactions and so on.
+ </para>
+
+ <section id="objectexecutionmode">
+ <title>Object execution mode</title>
+ <para>Object execution mode is the simplest form of working with the Process
+ Virtual Machine. This means working with the process definition and execution
+ objects directly through the client API. Let's show this by an example. We
+ start by creating a <literal>ClientProcessDefinition</literal> that looks
like this:
+ </para>
+
+ <para>Object execution mode is the simplest form of working with the Process
+ Virtual Machine. This means working with the process definition and execution
+ objects directly through the client API. Let's show this by an example. We
+ start by creating a <literal>ClientProcessDefinition</literal> that looks
like this:
+ </para>
+ <figure id="loan.process">
+ <title>The loan process</title>
+ <mediaobject><imageobject><imagedata align="center"
fileref="images/process.loan.png"/></imageobject></mediaobject>
+ </figure>
+ <programlisting>ClientProcessDefinition processDefinition =
ProcessFactory.build("loan")
+ .node("submit loan request").initial().behaviour(AutomaticActivity.class)
+ .transition().to("evaluate")
+ .node("evaluate").behaviour(WaitState.class)
+ .transition("approve").to("wire money")
+ .transition("reject").to("end")
+ .node("wire money").behaviour(AutomaticActivity.class)
+ .transition().to("archive")
+ .node("archive").behaviour(WaitState.class)
+ .transition().to("end")
+ .node("end").behaviour(WaitState.class)
+.done();</programlisting>
+ <para>The <literal>ProcessFactory</literal> is a helper class
that provides convenience
+ for building an object graph that represents a process definition.
+ <literal>AutomaticActivity</literal> is a pass-through activity without
anything
+ happening and <literal>WaitState</literal> will wait until an external
signal is given. Both
+ activity implementations will be covered in more depth later.
+ </para>
+ <para>The <literal>processDefinition</literal> object serves as a
factory for process
+ instance objects. A process instance represents one execution of the process
definition.
+ More precise, the process instance is the main path of execution.
+ </para>
+ <programlisting>ClientExecution execution =
processDefinition.startProcessInstance();</programlisting>
+ <para>A process instance
+ itself is also an <literal>Execution</literal>. Potentially, an
execution can have
+ child executions to represent concurrent paths of execution.
+ </para>
+ <para>The <literal>execution</literal> can be seen as a state
machine that operates as
+ described in the process definition. Starting a process
+ instance means that the initial node of the process definition is executed.
+ Since this is an automatic activity, the execution will proceed to the
+ <literal>evaluate</literal> node. The
<literal>evaluate</literal> node is a wait state.
+ When the execution arrived at the evaluate node, the method
<literal>startProcessInstance</literal>
+ will return and waits until an external signal is provided with the
<literal>signal</literal>
+ method. So after the <literal>startProcessInstance</literal> we can
verify if the
+ execution is positioned in the evaluate node.
+ </para>
+ <programlisting>assertEquals("evaluate",
execution.getNodeName());</programlisting>
+ <para>To make the process execute further, we provide an external trigger
with the
+ <literal>signal</literal> method. The result of the evaluation will be
given as the
+ signalName parameter like this:
+ </para>
+
<programlisting>execution.signal("approve");</programlisting>
+ <para>The <literal>WaitState</literal> activity implementation
will take the transition
+ that corresponds to the given signalName. So the execution will first execute
+ the automatic activity <literal>wire money</literal> and then return
after entering
+ the next wait state <literal>archive</literal>.
+ </para>
+ <programlisting>assertEquals("archive",
execution.getNodeName());</programlisting>
+ <para>When the execution is waiting in the archive node, the default signal
will
+ make it take the first unnamed transition.
+ </para>
+ <programlisting>execution.signal();
+assertEquals("end", execution.getNodeName());</programlisting>
+ <para>The process has executed in the thread of the client. The
+ <literal>startProcessInstance</literal> method only returned when the
<literal>evaluate</literal>
+ node was reached. In other words, the
<literal>ClientProcessDefinition.startProcessInstance</literal>
+ and <literal>ClientExecution.signal</literal> methods are blocking
until the next
+ wait state is reached.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section id="persistentexecutionmode">
+ <title>Persistent execution mode</title>
+ <para>The Process Virtual Machine also contains the hibernate mappings to
store the
+ process definitions and executions in any database. A special session facade
called
+ <literal>ExecutionService</literal> is provided for working with
process executions
+ in such a persistent environment.
+ </para>
+ <para>Two configuration files should be available on the classpath: an
environment
+ configuration file and a <literal>hibernate.properties</literal> file.
A basic
+ configuration for persistent execution mode in a standard Java environment looks
+ like this:
+ </para>
+ <literal><emphasis
role="bold">environment.cfg.xml</emphasis>:</literal>
+ <programlisting><contexts
xmlns="http://jbpm.org/pvm/1.0/wire">
+
+ <environment-factory>
+
+ <deployer-manager>
+ <language name="api">
+ <check-version />
+ <create-id />
+ <save-process />
+ </language>
+ </deployer-manager>
+
+ <process-service />
+ <execution-service />
+ <management-service />
+
+ <command-service>
+ <retry-interceptor />
+ <environment-interceptor />
+ <standard-transaction-interceptor />
+ </command-service>
+
+ <hibernate-configuration>
+ <properties resource="hibernate.properties" />
+ <mappings
resource="org/jbpm/pvm/pvm.hibernate.mappings.xml" />
+ <cache-configuration resource="org/jbpm/pvm/pvm.cache.xml"
+ usage="nonstrict-read-write" />
+ </hibernate-configuration>
+
+ <hibernate-session-factory />
+
+ <id-generator />
+ <variable-types resource="org/jbpm/pvm/pvm.types.xml"
/>
+ <job-executor auto-start="false" />
+
+ </environment-factory>
+
+ <environment>
+ <hibernate-session />
+ <transaction />
+ <pvm-db-session />
+ <job-db-session />
+ <message-session />
+ </environment>
+
+</contexts></programlisting>
+ <para>And next to it a hibernate.properties like this</para>
+ <literal>hibernate.properties:</literal>
+ <programlisting>hibernate.dialect
org.hibernate.dialect.HSQLDialect
+hibernate.connection.driver_class org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver
+hibernate.connection.url jdbc:hsqldb:mem:.
+hibernate.connection.username sa
+hibernate.connection.password
+hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto create-drop
+hibernate.cache.use_second_level_cache true
+hibernate.cache.provider_class org.hibernate.cache.HashtableCacheProvider
+# hibernate.show_sql true
+hibernate.format_sql true
+hibernate.use_sql_comments true</programlisting>
+ <para>Then you can obtain the services from the environment factory like
this:
+ </para>
+ <programlisting>EnvironmentFactory environmentFactory = new
PvmEnvironmentFactory("environment.cfg.xml");
+
+ProcessService processService = environmentFactory.get(ProcessService.class);
+ExecutionService executionService = environmentFactory.get(ExecutionService.class);
+ManagementService managementService =
environmentFactory.get(ManagementService.class);</programlisting>
+ <para>The responsibility of the <literal>ProcessService</literal>
is to manage
+ the repository of process definitions. Before we can start a process execution,
+ the process definition needs to be deployed into the process repository.
+ Process definitions can be supplied in various formats and process definition
+ languages. A deployment collects process definition information from various
+ sources like a ZIP file, an XML file or a process definition object.
+ The method <literal>ProcessService.deploy</literal> will take a
deployment
+ through all the deployers that are configured in the configuration file.
+ </para>
+ <para>In this example, we'll supply a process definition
programmatically
+ for deployment.</para>
+ <programlisting>ClientProcessDefinition processDefinition =
ProcessFactory.build("loan")
+ .node("submit loan request").initial().behaviour(AutomaticActivity.class)
+ .transition().to("evaluate")
+ .node("evaluate").behaviour(WaitState.class)
+ .transition("approve").to("wire money")
+ .transition("reject").to("end")
+ .node("wire money").behaviour(AutomaticActivity.class)
+ .transition().to("archive")
+ .node("archive").behaviour(WaitState.class)
+ .transition().to("end")
+ .node("end").behaviour(WaitState.class)
+.done();
+
+Deployment deployment = new Deployment(processDefinition);
+processService.deploy(deployment);</programlisting>
+ <para>Now, a version of that process definition is stored in the database.
+ The <literal>check-version</literal> deployer will have assigned version
1
+ to the stored process definition. The <literal>create-id</literal>
deployer
+ will have distilled id <literal>loan:1</literal> from the process name
and the
+ assigned version.
+ </para>
+ <para>Deploying that process again will lead to a new process definition
+ version being created in the database. But an incremented version number will
+ be assigned. For the purpose of versioning, process definitions are considered
+ equal if they have the same name.</para>
+ <para>It is recommended that a user provided key reference is supplied for
+ all process executions. Starting a new process execution goes like this:
+ </para>
+ <programlisting>Execution execution =
executionService.startExecution("loan:1",
"request7836");</programlisting>
+ <para>The return value is an execution interface, which prevents navigation of
relations.
+ That is because outside of the service methods, the transaction and hibernate session
+ is not guaranteed to still be open. In fact, the default configuration as given
+ above will only keep the transaction and session open for the duration of the
+ service method. So navigating the relations outside of the service methods might
result
+ into a hibernate <literal>LazyInitializationException</literal>. But the
+ current node name can still be verified:
+ </para>
+ <programlisting>assertEquals("evaluate",
execution.getNodeName());</programlisting>
+ <para>Also very important is the generated id that can be obtained. The
default
+ <literal>id-generator</literal> will use the process definition id and
the
+ given key to make a unique id for the process execution like this:</para>
+ <programlisting>assertEquals("loan:1/request7836",
execution.getId());</programlisting>
+ <para>That id must be when providing the subsequent external triggers to the
+ process execution like this:
+ </para>
+
<programlisting>executionService.signalExecution("loan:1/request7836",
"approve");</programlisting>
+ <para>More information about service interfaces to run in persistent
+ mode can be found in package
+ <ulink
url="../../api/org/jbpm/pvm/package-summary.html"><literal>org.jbpm.pvm</literal>
of the
+ api docs</ulink>.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section id="embeddedexecutionmode">
+ <title>Embedded execution mode</title>
+ <para>Embedded execution mode means that the state of a process is stored
+ as a string column inside a user domain object like e.g. a loan.
+ </para>
+ <programlisting>public class Loan {
+
+ <emphasis role="bold">/** the loan process definition as a static
resource */
+ private static final ClientProcessDefinition processDefinition = createLoanProcess();
+
+ private static ClientProcessDefinition createLoanProcess() {
+ ClientProcessDefinition processDefinition =
ProcessFactory.build("loan")
+ .node("submit loan
request").initial().behaviour(AutomaticActivity.class)
+ .transition().to("evaluate")
+ .node("evaluate").behaviour(WaitState.class)
+ .transition("approve").to("wire money")
+ .transition("reject").to("end")
+ .node("wire money").behaviour(AutomaticActivity.class)
+ .transition().to("archive")
+ .node("archive").behaviour(WaitState.class)
+ .transition().to("end")
+ .node("end").behaviour(WaitState.class)
+ .done();
+
+ return processDefinition;
+ }
+
+ /** exposes the process definition to the execution hibernate type */
+ private static ClientProcessDefinition getProcessDefinition() {
+ return processDefinition;
+ }
+ </emphasis>
+
+ long dbid;
+ String customer;
+ double amount;
+ <emphasis role="bold">ClientExecution execution;</emphasis>
+
+ /** constructor for persistence */
+ protected Loan() {
+ }
+
+ public Loan(String customer, double amount) {
+ this.customer = customer;
+ this.amount = amount;
+ <emphasis role="bold">this.execution =
processDefinition.startProcessInstance();</emphasis>
+ }
+
+ public void approve() {
+ <emphasis
role="bold">execution.signal("approve");</emphasis>
+ }
+
+ public void reject() {
+ <emphasis
role="bold">execution.signal("reject");</emphasis>
+ }
+
+ public void archiveComplete() {
+ <emphasis role="bold">execution.signal();</emphasis>
+ }
+
+ public String getState() {
+ return <emphasis
role="bold">execution.getNodeName()</emphasis>;
+ }
+
+ ...getters...
+}</programlisting>
+ <para>If you ignore the bold parts for a second, you can see that this is a
+ POJO without anything fancy. It's just a bean that can be stored with hibernate.
+ The bold part indicate that implementation part of the class that is related
+ to process and execution. Not that nothing of the process definition or
+ execution is exposed to the user of the Loan class.
+ </para>
+ <para>Each <literal>Loan</literal> object corresponds to a
<literal>loan</literal>
+ process instance. Some methods of the <literal>Loan</literal> class
correspond
+ to the external triggers that need to be given during the lifecycle of a
+ <literal>Loan</literal> object.
+ </para>
+ <para>Next we'll show how to use this class. To get started we need
a</para>
+ <emphasis
role="bold"><literal>hibernate.cfg.xml:</literal></emphasis>
+ <programlisting><?xml version="1.0"
encoding="utf-8"?>
+
+<!DOCTYPE hibernate-configuration PUBLIC
+ "-//Hibernate/Hibernate Configuration DTD 3.0//EN"
+
"http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/hibernate-configuration-3.0.dtd">
+
+<hibernate-configuration>
+ <session-factory>
+
+ <property
name="hibernate.dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.HSQLDialect</property>
+ <property
name="hibernate.connection.driver_class">org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver</property>
+ <property
name="hibernate.connection.url">jdbc:hsqldb:mem:.</property>
+ <property
name="hibernate.connection.username">sa</property>
+ <property
name="hibernate.connection.password"></property>
+ <property
name="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto">create</property>
+ <property
name="hibernate.show_sql">true"</property>
+ <property
name="hibernate.format_sql">true"</property>
+ <property
name="hibernate.use_sql_comments">true"</property>
+
+ <mapping resource="Loan.hbm.xml"/>
+
+ </session-factory>
+</hibernate-configuration></programlisting>
+ <para>And a</para>
+ <emphasis
role="bold"><literal>Loan.hbm.xml:</literal></emphasis>
+ <programlisting><?xml version="1.0"?<
+
+<!DOCTYPE hibernate-mapping PUBLIC
+ "-//Hibernate/Hibernate Mapping DTD 3.0//EN"
+
"http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/hibernate-mapping-3.0.dtd"<
+
+<hibernate-mapping package="org.jbpm.pvm.api.db.embedded"
default-access="field"<
+
+ <typedef name="execution"
class="org.jbpm.pvm.internal.hibernate.ExecutionType" /<
+
+ <class name="Loan" table="LOAN"<
+
+ <id name="dbid"<
+ <generator class="sequence"/<
+ </id<
+
+ <property name="execution"
type="execution" /<
+ <property name="customer" /<
+ <property name="amount" /<
+
+ </class<
+
+</hibernate-mapping<</programlisting>
+ <para>Then you can use the Loan class like this in a test</para>
+ <programlisting>Configuration configuration = new Configuration();
+configuration.configure();
+SessionFactory sessionFactory = configuration.buildSessionFactory();
+
+// start a session/transaction
+Session session = sessionFactory.openSession();
+Transaction transaction = session.beginTransaction();
+
+Loan loan = new Loan("john doe", 234.0);
+session.save(loan);
+assertEquals("evaluate", loan.getState());
+
+// start a new session/transaction
+transaction.commit();
+session.close();
+session = sessionFactory.openSession();
+transaction = session.beginTransaction();
+
+loan = (Loan) session.get(Loan.class, loan.getDbid());
+assertEquals("evaluate", loan.getState());
+loan.approve();
+assertEquals("archive", loan.getState());
+
+// start a new session/transaction
+transaction.commit();
+session.close();</programlisting>
+ <para>After executing this code snippet, this is the loan record in the
DB:</para>
+ <figure id="loan.db">
+ <title>The loan record in the DB</title>
+ <mediaobject><imageobject><imagedata align="center"
fileref="images/loan.db.png"/></imageobject></mediaobject>
+ </figure>
+ </section>
+
+</chapter>
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+<chapter id="architecture">
+ <title>Architecture</title>
+
+ <section id="apis">
+ <title>APIs</title>
+ <para>The Process Virtual Machine has 4 integrated API's that together
+ offer a complete coverage of working with processes in the different execution modes.
+ Each of the APIs has a specific purpose that fits within the following overall
+ architecture.
+ </para>
+ <figure id="apis">
+ <title>The 4 API's of the Process Virtual Machine</title>
+ <mediaobject><imageobject><imagedata align="center"
fileref="images/apis.png"/></imageobject></mediaobject>
+ </figure>
+ <para>The services interfaces should be used from application code that wants
to interact
+ with the Process Virtual Machine which runs in transactional persistent mode, backed
by a
+ database. This is the most typical way how users interact with the PVM as a workflow
engine.
+ </para>
+ <para>To execute processes without persistence, the client API can be used to
work with process
+ and execution objects directly. The client API expose the methods of the core model
objects.
+ </para>
+ <para>The activity API is used to implement the runtime behaviour of
activities. So a activity
+ type is in fact a component with at the core an implementation of the
<literal>Activity</literal>
+ interface. Activity implementations can control the flow of execution.
+ </para>
+ <para>The event listener API serves to write pieces of Java code that should be
executed upon
+ process events. It's very similar to the activity API with that exception that
event listeners
+ are not able to control the flow of execution.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Activity API</title>
+ <para>The activity API allows to implement the runtime activity behaviour in
Java.
+ </para>
+ <programlisting>public interface Activity extends Serializable {
+ void execute(ActivityExecution execution) throws Exception;
+}</programlisting>
+ <para>An activity is the behaviour of the node to which it is associated.
+ The provided execution is the execution that arrives in the node.
+ The interface <literal>ActivityExecution</literal> exposes special
+ methods to control the execution flow.
+ </para>
+ <programlisting>public interface ActivityExecution extends OpenExecution {
+
+ void waitForSignal();
+ void take(String transitionName);
+ void execute(String nodeName);
+
+ ...
+
+}</programlisting>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Event listener API</title>
+ <para>The event listener API allows for listeners to be developed in Java code
+ and that are invoked on specific process events like entering a node or leaving
+ a node. It is very similar to the activity API, but the difference is
+ that the propagation of the execution flow cannot be controlled. E.g. when an
execution
+ is taking a transition, a listener to that event can be notified, but since the
+ transition is already being taking, the execution flow cannot be changed
+ by the event listeners.
+ </para>
+ <programlisting>public interface EventListener extends Serializable {
+
+ void notify(EventListenerExecution execution) throws Exception;
+
+}</programlisting>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Client API</title>
+ <para>The client API was already introduced above in the object execution mode
+ and embedded execution mode. It's an interface that exposes the methods for
+ managing executions on the plain process definition and execution objects directly.
+ </para>
+ <para>At a minimal, the client API and the activity API are needed to create
+ some a process definition with activities and execute it.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Environment</title>
+ <para>In the persistent execution mode, the first purpose of the environment is
+ to enable processes to be executed in different transactional environments like
+ standard Java, enterprise Java, SEAM and Spring.
+ </para>
+ <para>The PVM code itself will only use transactional resources through
self-defined
+ interfaces. For example, the PVM itself has interfaces for some methods on the
hibernate
+ session, a async messaging session and a timer session.
+ </para>
+ <para>The environment allows to configure the actual implementations, lazy
+ initialization of the services on a request-basis and caching the service
+ objects for the duration of the transaction.
+ </para>
+ <para>An environment factory is static and one environment factory can serve
+ all the threads in an application.
+ </para>
+ <programlisting>EnvironmentFactory environmentFactory = new
PvmEnvironmentFactory("environment.cfg.xml");</programlisting>
+ <para>Environment blocks can surround persistent process operations
+ like this:
+ </para>
+ <programlisting>Environment environment =
environmentFactory.openEnvironment();
+try {
+
+ ... inside the environment block...
+
+} finally {
+ environment.close();
+}</programlisting>
+ <para>The PVM itself will fetch all it's transactional resources and
configurations
+ from the environment. It's recommended that
<literal>Activity</literal> implementations
+ do the same.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Commands</title>
+ <para>Commands encapsulate operations that are to be executed within an
environment
+ block. The main purpose for commands is to capture the logic of
+ </para>
+ <programlisting>public interface Command<T> extends Serializable
{
+
+ T execute(Environment environment) throws Exception;
+
+}</programlisting>
+ <para></para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Services</title>
+ <para>There are three services: <literal>ProcessService</literal>,
+ <literal>ExecutionService</literal> and
<literal>ManagementService</literal>.
+ In general, services are session facades that expose methods for persistent
+ usage of the PVM. The next fragments show the essential methods as example
+ to illustrate those services.
+ </para>
+ <para>The <literal>ProcessService</literal> manages the repository
of
+ process definitions.
+ </para>
+ <programlisting>public interface ProcessService {
+
+ ProcessDefinition deploy(Deployment deployment);
+
+ ProcessDefinition findLatestProcessDefinition(String processDefinitionName);
+
+ ...
+
+}</programlisting>
+ <para>The <literal>ExecutionService</literal> manages the runtime
+ executions.</para>
+ <programlisting>public interface ExecutionService {
+
+ Execution startExecution(String processDefinitionId, String executionKey);
+
+ Execution signalExecution(String executionId, String signalName);
+
+ ...
+
+}</programlisting>
+ <para>The <literal>ManagementService</literal> groups all
management operations
+ that are needed to keep the system up and running.
+ </para>
+ <programlisting>public interface ManagementService {
+
+ List<Job> getJobsWithException(int firstResult, int maxResults);
+
+ void executeJob(String jobId);
+
+ ...
+
+}</programlisting>
+ <para>The implementation of all these methods is encapsulated in
+ <literal>Command</literal>s. And the three services all delegate the
+ execution of the commands to a <literal>CommandService</literal>:
+ </para>
+ <programlisting>public interface CommandService {
+
+ <T> T execute(Command<T> command);
+
+}</programlisting>
+ <para>The <literal>CommandService</literal> is configured in the
+ environment. A chain of CommandServices can act as interceptors
+ around a command. This is the core mechanism on how persistence and
+ transactional support can be offered in a variety of environments.
+ </para>
+ <para>From the default configuration which is included in full above,
+ here is the section that configures the services
+ </para>
+ <programlisting><contexts
xmlns="http://jbpm.org/pvm/1.0/wire">
+
+ <environment-factory>
+
+ <process-service />
+ <execution-service />
+ <management-service />
+
+ <command-service>
+ <retry-interceptor />
+ <environment-interceptor />
+ <standard-transaction-interceptor />
+ </command-service>
+
+ ...
+ </programlisting>
+ <para>The three services <literal>process-service</literal>,
<literal>execution-service</literal>
+ and <literal>management-service</literal> will look up the configured
+ <literal>command-service</literal> by type. The
<literal>command-service</literal>
+ tag corresponds to the default command service that essentially does nothing else
+ then just execute the command providing it the current environment.
+ </para>
+ <para>The configured <literal>command-service</literal> results
into the following
+ a chain of three interceptors followed by the default command executor.
+ </para>
+ <figure id="interceptors">
+ <title>The CommandService interceptors</title>
+ <mediaobject><imageobject><imagedata align="center"
fileref="images/interceptors.png"/></imageobject></mediaobject>
+ </figure>
+ <para>The retry interceptor is the first in the chain and that one that will be
exposed as the
+ <literal>CommandService.class</literal> from the environment. So the
retry interceptor
+ will be given to the respective services
<literal>process-service</literal>,
<literal>execution-service</literal>
+ and <literal>management-service</literal>.
+ </para>
+ <para>The <literal>retry-interceptor</literal> will catch hibernate
StaleObjectExceptions
+ (indicating optimistic locking failures) and retry to execute the command.
+ </para>
+ <para>The <literal>environment-interceptor</literal> will put an
environment block
+ around the execution of the command.
+ </para>
+ <para>The <literal>standard-transaction-interceptor</literal> will
initialize a
+ <literal>StandardTransaction</literal>. The hibernate
session/transaction will be
+ enlisted as a resource with this standard transaction.
+ </para>
+ <para>Different configurations of this interceptor stack will also enable to
+ </para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>delegate execution to a local ejb command service so that an
container
+ managed transaction is started.
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>delegate to a remote ejb command service so that the command
actually
+ gets executed on a different JVM.
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>package the command as an asynchronous message so that the command
gets
+ executed asynchronously in a different transaction.
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </section>
+
+</chapter>
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+<chapter id="implementingbasicactivities">
+ <title>Implementing basic activities</title>
+
+ <para>This chapter explains the basics of process definitions, the features
offered by
+ the Process Virtual Machine and how activity implementations can be build. At the
same
+ time the client API is shown to execute processes with those activity implementations.
+ </para>
+
+ <!-- ### Activity ####################################################### -->
+ <section id="activity">
+ <title>Activity</title>
+ <para>The PVM library doesn't have a fixed set of process constructs.
+ Instead, runtime behaviour of a node is delegated to an
<literal>Activity</literal>.
+ In other words, <literal>Activity</literal> is an interface to implement
the runtime
+ behaviour of process constructs in plain Java.
+ </para>
+ <programlisting>public <emphasis role="bold">interface
Activity</emphasis> extends Serializable {
+
+ void <emphasis role="bold">execute</emphasis>(ActivityExecution
execution) throws Exception;
+
+}</programlisting>
+ <para>When an activity is used as the node behaviour, it is in full control of
the further
+ propagation of the execution. In other words, a node behaviour can decide what the
execution
+ should do next. For example, it can take a transition with
+ <literal>execution.take(Transition)</literal> or go into a wait state
with
+ <literal>execution.waitForSignal()</literal>. In case the node behaviour
does not invoke
+ any of the above execution propagation methods, the execution will
+ <link linkend="implicitproceedbehaviour">proceed in a default
way</link>.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <!-- ### Activity example ############################################### -->
+ <section id="activityexample">
+ <title>Activity example</title>
+ <para>We'll start with a very original hello world example. A Display
+ activity will print a message to the console:
+ </para>
+ <programlisting>public <emphasis role="bold">class
Display</emphasis> implements <emphasis
role="bold">Activity</emphasis> {
+
+ String message;
+
+ public Display(String message) {
+ this.message = message;
+ }
+
+ public void execute(ActivityExecution execution) {
+ <emphasis role="bold">System.out.println(message);</emphasis>
+ }
+}</programlisting>
+ <para>Let' build our first process definition with this
activity:</para>
+ <figure id="activity.example">
+ <title>Display example process</title>
+ <mediaobject><imageobject><imagedata align="center"
fileref="images/process.ab.png"/></imageobject></mediaobject>
+ </figure>
+ <programlisting>ClientProcessDefinition processDefinition =
ProcessFactory.build()
+ .<emphasis
role="bold">node("a").initial()</emphasis>.behaviour(<emphasis
role="bold">new Display("hello")</emphasis>)
+ .transition().to("b")
+ .<emphasis
role="bold">node("b")</emphasis>.behaviour(<emphasis
role="bold">new Display("world")</emphasis>)
+.done();</programlisting>
+ <para>Now we can execute this process as follows:</para>
+ <programlisting>Execution execution =
processDefinition.startExecution();</programlisting>
+ <para>The invocation of <literal>startExecution</literal> will
print hello world to the console:</para>
+ <programlisting>hello
+world</programlisting>
+ <para>One thing already worth noticing is that activities can be configured
+ with properties. In the Display example, you can see that the message property
+ is configured differently in the two usages. With configuration properties
+ it becomes possible to write reusable activities. They can then be configured
+ differently each time they are used in a process. That is an essential part of
+ how process languages can be build on top of the Process Virtual Machine.
+ </para>
+ <para>The other part that needs explanation is that this activity
+ implementation does not contain any instructions for the propagation of the
+ execution. When a new process instance is started, the execution is positioned
+ in the initial node and that activity is executed. The method
+ <literal>Display.execute</literal> makes use of what is called implicit
propagation
+ of execution. Concretely this means that the activity itself does not
+ invoke any of the methods on the execution to propagate it. In that case
+ implicit propagation kicks in. Implicit propagation will take the first
+ transition if there is one. If not, it will end the execution. This explains
+ why both nodes <literal>a</literal> and <literal>b</literal>
are executed and that
+ the execution stops after node <literal>b</literal> is executed.
+ </para>
+ <para>More details about the implicit proceed behaviour can be found
+ in <xref linkend="implicitproceedbehaviour" /></para>
+ </section>
+
+ <!-- ### ExternalActivity ############################################### -->
+ <section id="externalactivity">
+ <title>ExternalActivity</title>
+ <para>External activities are activities for which the responsibility for
proceeding
+ the execution is transferred externally, meaning outside the process system. This
+ means that for the system that is executing the process, it's a wait state. The
+ execution will wait until an external trigger is given.
+ </para>
+ <para>For dealing with external triggers,
<literal>ExternalActivity</literal>
+ adds two methods to the <literal>Activity</literal>:</para>
+ <programlisting>public <emphasis role="bold">interface
ExternalActivity</emphasis> extends <emphasis
role="bold">Activity</emphasis> {
+
+ void <emphasis role="bold">signal</emphasis>(Execution
execution,
+ String signal,
+ Map<String, Object> parameters) throws Exception;
+
+}</programlisting>
+ <para>Just like with plain activities, when an execution arrives in a node, the
+ <literal>execute</literal>-method of the node behaviour is invoked.
+ In external activities, the execute method typically does something to
+ transfer the responsibility to another system and then enters a wait
+ state by invoking <literal>execution.waitForSignal()</literal>. For
+ example in the execute method, responsibility could be transferred to a
+ person by creating a task entry in a task management system and then
+ wait until the person completes the task.
+ </para>
+ <para>In case a node behaves as a wait state, then the execution will
+ wait in that node until the execution's <literal>signal</literal>
method
+ is invoked. The execution will delegate that signal to the behaviour Activity
+ of the current node.
+ </para>
+ <para>So the Activity's <literal>signal</literal>-method is
invoked
+ when the execution receives an external trigger during the wait state. With the
+ signal method, responsibility is transferred back to the process execution. For
+ example, when a person completes a task, the task management system calls the
+ signal method on the execution.
+ </para>
+ <para>A signal can optionally have a signal name and a map of parameters. Most
+ common way on how node behaviours interprete the signal and parameters is that
+ the signal relates to the outgoing transition that needs to be taken and that the
+ parameters are set as variables on the execution. But those are just examples, it
+ is up to the activity to use the signal and the parameters as it pleases.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <!-- ### ExternalActivity example ####################################### -->
+ <section id="externalactivityexample">
+ <title>ExternalActivity example</title>
+ <para>Here's a first example of a simple wait state implementation:
+ </para>
+ <programlisting>public <emphasis role="bold">class
WaitState</emphasis> implements <emphasis
role="bold">ExternalActivity</emphasis> {
+
+ public void execute(ActivityExecution execution) {
+ <emphasis role="bold">execution.waitForSignal();</emphasis>
+ }
+
+ public void signal(ActivityExecution execution,
+ String signalName,
+ Map<String, Object> parameters) {
+ <emphasis role="bold">execution.take(signalName);</emphasis>
+ }
+}</programlisting>
+ <para>The <literal>execute</literal>-method calls
+ <literal>execution.waitForSignal()</literal>. The invocation of
+ <literal>execution.waitForSignal()</literal> will bring the process
execution
+ into a wait state until an external trigger is given.
+ </para>
+ <para><literal>signal</literal>-method takes the transition with
+ the signal parameter as the transition name. So when an execution receives an
+ external trigger, the signal name is interpreted as the name of an outgoing
+ transition and the execution will be propagated over that transition.
+ </para>
+ <para>Here's the same simple process that has a transition from a to b.
This
+ time, the behaviour of the two nodes will be WaitState's.
+ </para>
+ <figure id="process.diagram">
+ <title>The external activity example process</title>
+ <mediaobject><imageobject><imagedata align="center"
fileref="images/process.ab.png"/></imageobject></mediaobject>
+ </figure>
+ <programlisting>ClientProcessDefinition processDefinition =
ProcessFactory.build()
+ <emphasis role="bold">.node("a").initial().behaviour(new
WaitState())</emphasis>
+ .transition().to("b")
+ <emphasis role="bold">.node("b").behaviour(new
WaitState())</emphasis>
+.done();</programlisting>
+ <para>Let's start a new process instance for this process
definition:</para>
+ <programlisting>ClientExecution execution =
processDefinition.startProcessInstance();</programlisting>
+ <para>Starting this process will execute the
<literal>WaitState</literal> activity
+ in node <literal>a</literal>.
<literal>WaitState.execute</literal> will invoke
+ <literal>ActivityExecution.waitForSignal</literal>. So when the
+ <literal>processDefinition.startProcessInstance()</literal> returns, the
execution
+ will still be positioned in node a.
+ </para>
+ <programlisting>assertEquals("a",
execution.getNodeName());</programlisting>
+ <para>Then we provide the external trigger by calling the
<literal>signal</literal>
+ method.
+ </para>
+ <programlisting>execution.signal();</programlisting>
+ <para>The <literal>execution.signal()</literal> will delegate to
the activity
+ of the current node. So in this case that is the
<literal>WaitState</literal>
+ activity in node <literal>a</literal>. The
<literal>WaitState.signal</literal>
+ will invoke the <literal>ActivityExecution.take(String
transitionName)</literal>.
+ Since we didn't supply a signalName, the first transition with name
<literal>null</literal>
+ will be taken. The only transition we specified out of node
<literal>a</literal>
+ didn't get a name so that one will be taken. And that transition points to node
+ <literal>b</literal>. When the execution arrives in node
<literal>b</literal>,
+ the <literal>WaitState</literal> in node <literal>b</literal>
is executed.
+ Similar as we saw above, the execution will wait in node
<literal>b</literal>
+ and this time the <literal>signal</literal> method will return, leaving
the
+ execution positioned in node <literal>b</literal>.
+ </para>
+ <programlisting>assertEquals("b",
execution.getNodeName());</programlisting>
+ </section>
+
+ <!-- ### BASIC PROCESS EXECUTION ######################################## -->
+ <section id="basicprocessexecution">
+ <title>Basic process execution</title>
+ <para>In this next example, we'll combine automatic activities and wait
states.
+ This example builds upon the loan approval process with the
<literal>WaitState</literal>
+ and <literal>Display</literal> activities that we've just created.
Graphically,
+ the loan process looks like this:
+ </para>
+ <figure id="basicprocessexecution.loan.process">
+ <title>The loan process</title>
+ <mediaobject><imageobject><imagedata align="center"
fileref="images/process.loan.png"/></imageobject></mediaobject>
+ </figure>
+ <para>Building process graphs in Java code can be tedious because you have to
keep track of all the
+ references in local variables. To resolve that, the Process Virtual Machine comes
with a
+ ProcessFactory. The ProcessFactory is a kind of domain specific language (DSL) that
is embedded
+ in Java and eases the construction of process graphs. This pattern is also known as
+ a <ulink
url="http://martinfowler.com/bliki/FluentInterface.html">fluent
+ interface</ulink>.
+ </para>
+ <programlisting>ClientProcessDefinition processDefinition =
ProcessFactory.build("loan")
+ .node(<emphasis role="bold">"submit loan
request"</emphasis>).initial().behaviour(new Display("loan request
submitted"))
+ .transition().to("evaluate")
+ <emphasis role="bold">.node("evaluate").behaviour(new
WaitState())</emphasis>
+ .transition("approve").to("wire money")
+ .transition("reject").to("end")
+ <emphasis role="bold">.node("wire money").behaviour(new
Display("wire the money"))</emphasis>
+ .transition().to("archive")
+ <emphasis role="bold">.node("archive").behaviour(new
WaitState())</emphasis>
+ .transition().to("end")
+ <emphasis role="bold">.node("end").behaviour(new
WaitState())</emphasis>
+.done();</programlisting>
+ <para>For more details about the ProcessFactory, see <ulink
url="../../api/org/jbpm/pvm/package-summary.html">the
+ api docs</ulink>. An alternative for
+ the ProcessFactory would be to create an XML language and an XML parser for
expressing
+ processes. The XML parser can then instantiate the classes of package
+ <literal>org.jbpm.pvm.internal.model</literal> directly. That approach is
typically taken by
+ process languages.
+ </para>
+ <para>The initial node <literal>submit loan request</literal> and
the node
+ <literal>wire the money</literal> are automatic nodes. In this example,
+ the <literal>Display</literal> implementation of node
+ <literal>wire the money</literal> uses the Java API's to just print a
+ message to the console. But the witty reader can imagine an alternative
+ <literal>Activity</literal> implementation that uses the Java API of a
payment
+ processing library to make a real automatic payment.
+ </para>
+ <para>A new execution for the process above can be started like this
+ </para>
+ <programlisting>ClientExecution execution =
processDefinition.startProcessInstance();</programlisting>
+ <para>When the <literal>startExecution</literal>-method returns,
the node
+ <literal>submit loan request</literal> will be executed and the execution
will be
+ positioned in the node <literal>evaluate</literal>.
+ </para>
+ <figure id="execution.loan.evaluate">
+ <title>Execution positioned in the 'evaluate' node</title>
+ <mediaobject><imageobject><imagedata align="center"
fileref="images/execution.loan.evaluate.png"/></imageobject></mediaobject>
+ </figure>
+ <para>Now, the execution is at an interesting point. There are two transitions
out of
+ the state <literal>evaluate</literal>. One transition is called
<literal>approve</literal>
+ and one transition is called <literal>reject</literal>. As we explained
above, the WaitState
+ implementation will take the transition that corresponds to the signal that is given.
+ Let's feed in the 'approve' signal like this:
+ </para>
+ <programlisting>execution.signal("approve");</programlisting>
+ <para>The <literal>approve</literal> signal will cause the
execution to take the <literal>approve</literal>
+ transition and it will arrive in the node <literal>wire money</literal>.
+ </para>
+ <para>In node <literal>wire money</literal>, the message will be
printed to the console.
+ Since, the <literal>Display</literal> activity didn't invoke the
+ <literal>execution.waitForSignal()</literal>, nor any of the other
execution propagation
+ methods, the implicit proceed behaviour will just make the execution continue
+ over the outgoing transition to node <literal>archive</literal>, which is
again
+ a <literal>WaitState</literal>.
+ </para>
+ <figure id="execution.loan.archive">
+ <title>Execution positioned in 'archive' node</title>
+ <mediaobject><imageobject><imagedata align="center"
fileref="images/execution.loan.archive.png"/></imageobject></mediaobject>
+ </figure>
+ <para>So only when the <literal>archive</literal> wait state is
reached,
+ the <literal>signal("approve")</literal> returns.
+ </para>
+ <para>Another signal like this:</para>
+ <programlisting>execution.signal("approve");</programlisting>
+ <para>will bring the execution eventually in the end state.</para>
+ <figure id="execution.loan.end">
+ <title>Execution positioned in the 'end' node</title>
+ <mediaobject><imageobject><imagedata align="center"
fileref="images/execution.loan.end.png"/></imageobject></mediaobject>
+ </figure>
+ </section>
+
+ <!-- ### EVENTS ######################################################### -->
+ <section id="events">
+ <title>Events</title>
+ <para>Events are points in the process definition to which a list of
+ <literal>EventListener</literal>s can be subscribed.
+ </para>
+ <programlisting>public interface EventListener extends Serializable {
+
+ void notify(EventListenerExecution execution) throws Exception;
+
+}</programlisting>
+ <para>The motivation for events is to allow for
+ developers to add programming logic to a process without changing the process
diagram.
+ This is a very valuable instrument in facilitating the collaboration between business
analysts
+ and developers. Business analysts
+ are responsible for expressing the requirements. When they use a process graph to
document
+ those requirements, developers can take this diagram and make it executable. Events
can
+ be a very handy to insert technical details into a process (like e.g. some database
insert)
+ in which the business analyst is not interested.
+ </para>
+ <para>Most common events are fired by the execution automatically:
+ </para>
+ <para><emphasis role="bold">WARNING: the following event names
will be
+ subject to change in the next release: see
+ <ulink
url="https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBPM-1753">JBPM-1753...
+ </para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem><literal><emphasis
role="bold">Event.TRANSITION_TAKE</emphasis> =
"transition-take"</literal> :
+ fired on transitions when transitions are taken.
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem><literal><emphasis
role="bold">Event.NODE_BEGIN</emphasis> =
"node-begin"</literal> : fired on the node
+ when execution enters that node. This happens when execution takes a transition
+ to that node, when a child node is being executed with
<literal>execution.execute(Node)</literal>
+ or when a transition is taken from a node outside that node to a contained node.
+ The latter refers to super states in state machines.
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem><literal><emphasis
role="bold">Event.NODE_END</emphasis> =
"node-end"</literal> : fired on the node
+ when a transition is taken out of that node or when a child node execution is
+ finished and the execution is propagated to the parent node.
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem><literal><emphasis
role="bold">Event.PROCESS_BEGIN</emphasis> =
"process-begin"</literal> : fired on a process
+ when a new process is started.
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem><literal><emphasis
role="bold">Event.PROCESS_END</emphasis> =
"process-end"</literal> : fired on a process
+ when a new process is ended. This might include a executions that are ended
+ with a cancelled or error state.
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ <para>Events are identified by the combination of a process element
+ and an event name. Users and process languages can also fire events
+ programmatically with the fire method on the Execution:
+ </para>
+ <programlisting>public interface Execution extends Serializable {
+ ...
+ void fire(String eventName, ProcessElement eventSource);
+ ...
+}</programlisting>
+
+ <para>A list of <literal>EventListeners</literal> can be associated
to an
+ event. But event listeners can not influence the control flow of the execution since
+ they are merely listeners to an execution which is already in progress. This is
different from
+ activities that serve as the behaviour for nodes. Node behaviour activities are
responsible
+ for propagating the execution.
+ </para>
+ <para>We'll create a <literal>PrintLn</literal> event listener
which is
+ very similar to the <literal>Display</literal> activity from above.
+ </para>
+ <programlisting>public class PrintLn implements EventListener {
+
+ String message;
+
+ public PrintLn(String message) {
+ this.message = message;
+ }
+
+ public void notify(EventListenerExecution execution) throws Exception {
+ System.out.println("message");
+ }
+}</programlisting>
+ <para>Several <literal>PrintLn</literal> listeners will be
subscribed to events in
+ the process.</para>
+ <figure id="action.process">
+ <title>The PrintLn listener process</title>
+ <mediaobject><imageobject><imagedata align="center"
fileref="images/process.ab.png"/></imageobject></mediaobject>
+ </figure>
+ <programlisting>ClientProcessDefinition processDefinition =
ProcessFactory.build()
+ .node("a").initial().behaviour(new AutomaticActivity())
+ <emphasis role="bold">.event("node-end")
+ .listener(new PrintLn("leaving a"))
+ .listener(new PrintLn("second message while leaving
a"))</emphasis>
+ .transition().to("b")
+ <emphasis role="bold">.listener(new PrintLn("taking
transition"))</emphasis>
+ .node("b").behaviour(new WaitState())
+ .event("node-begin")
+ <emphasis role="bold">.listener(new PrintLn("entering
b"))</emphasis>
+.done();</programlisting>
+ <para>The first event shows how to register multiple listeners to the same
+ event. They will be notified in the order as they are specified.
+ </para>
+ <para>Then, on the transition, there is only one type of event. So in that
case,
+ the event type must not be specified and the listeners can be added directly on
+ the transition.
+ </para>
+ <para>A listeners will be called each time an execution fires the event to
+ which the listener is subscribed. The execution will be provided in the activity
+ interface as a parameter and can be used by listeners except for the methods that
+ control the propagation of execution.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <!-- ### EVENT PROPAGATION ############################################## -->
+ <section>
+ <title>Event propagation</title>
+ <para>Events are by default propagated to enclosing process elements. The
motivation
+ is to allow for listeners on process definitions or composite nodes that get
executed
+ for all events that occur within that process element. For example this feature
+ allows to register an event listener on a process definition or a composite node on
+ <literal>node-end</literal> events. Such action will be executed if that
node is
+ left. And if that event listener is registered on a composite node, it will also be
executed
+ for all nodes that are left within that composite node.
+ </para>
+ <para>To show this clearly, we'll create a
<literal>DisplaySource</literal> event listener
+ that will print the message <literal>leaving</literal> and the source of
the event
+ to the console.
+ </para>
+ <programlisting>public class <emphasis
role="bold">DisplaySource</emphasis> implements EventListener {
+
+ public void execute(EventListenerExecution execution) {
+ <emphasis role="bold">System.out.println("leaving
"+execution.getEventSource());</emphasis>
+ }
+}</programlisting>
+ <para>Note that the purpose of event listeners is not to be visible, that's
why the event listener
+ itself should not be displayed in the diagram. A
<literal>DisplaySource</literal> event listener
+ will be added as a listener to the event <literal>node-end</literal> on
the composite node.
+ </para>
+ <para>The next process shows how the
<literal>DisplaySource</literal> event listener is registered
+ as a listener to to the 'node-end' event on the
<literal>composite</literal> node:</para>
+ <figure id="process.propagate">
+ <title>A process with an invisible event listener on a node-end event on a
composite node.</title>
+ <mediaobject><imageobject><imagedata align="center"
fileref="images/process.propagate.png"/></imageobject></mediaobject>
+ </figure>
+ <programlisting>ClientProcessDefinition processDefinition =
ProcessFactory.build("propagate")
+ <emphasis role="bold">.compositeNode("composite")
+ .event(Event.NODE_END)
+ .listener(new DisplaySource())</emphasis>
+ .node("a").initial().behaviour(new WaitState())
+ .transition().to("b")
+ .node("b").behaviour(new WaitState())
+ .transition().to("c")
+ .compositeEnd()
+ .node("c").behaviour(new WaitState())
+.done();</programlisting>
+ <para>Next we'll start an execution.</para>
+ <programlisting>ClientExecution execution =
processDefinition.startProcessInstance();</programlisting>
+ <para>After starting a new execution, the execution will be in node
<literal>a</literal> as
+ that is the initial node. No nodes have been left so no message is logged. Next a
signal
+ will be given to the execution, causing it to take the transition from
<literal>a</literal>
+ to <literal>b</literal>.
+ </para>
+ <programlisting>execution.signal();</programlisting>
+ <para>When the signal method returns, the execution will have taken the
transition and
+ the <literal>node-end</literal> event will be fired on node
<literal>a</literal>. That
+ event will be propagated to the
+ composite node and to the process definition. Since our
<literal>DisplaySource</literal>
+ event listener is placed
+ on the <literal>composite</literal> node, it will receive the event and
print the following
+ message on the console:
+ </para>
+ <programlisting>leaving node(a)</programlisting>
+ <para>Another</para>
+ <programlisting>execution.signal();</programlisting>
+ <para>will take the transition from b to c. That will fire two node-leave
events. One on
+ node b and one on node composite. So the following lines will be appended to the
console
+ output:</para>
+ <programlisting>leaving node(b)
+leaving node(composite)</programlisting>
+ <para>Event propagation is build on the hierarchical composition structure of
the process
+ definition. The top level element is always the process definition. The process
+ definition contains a list of nodes. Each node can be a leaf node or it can be a
+ composite node, which means that it contains a list of nested nodes. Nested nodes
+ can be used for e.g. super states or composite activities in nested process languages
like BPEL.
+ </para>
+ <para>So the even model also works similarly for composite nodes as it did for
the process
+ definition above. Suppose that 'Phase one' models
+ a super state as in state machines. Then event propagation allows to subscribe to
all events
+ within that super state. The idea is that the hierarchical composition corresponds
to
+ diagram representation. If an element 'e' is drawn inside another element
'p', then p
+ is the parent of e. A process definition has a set of top level nodes. Every node
can have
+ a set of nested nodes. The parent of a transition is considered as the first common
+ parent for it's source and destination.
+ </para>
+ <para>If an event listener is not interested in propagated events, propagation
can be disabled
+ with <literal>propagationDisabled()</literal> while building the process
with the
+ <literal>ProcessFactory</literal>. The next process is the same process
+ as above except that propagated events will be disabled on the event listener. The
graph diagram
+ remains the same.
+ </para>
+ <figure id="process.propagate.propagation.disabled">
+ <title>A process with an event listener to 'node-end' events with
propagation disabled.</title>
+ <mediaobject><imageobject><imagedata align="center"
fileref="images/process.propagate.png"/></imageobject></mediaobject>
+ </figure>
+ <para>Building the process with the process factory:
+ </para>
+ <programlisting>ClientProcessDefinition processDefinition =
ProcessFactory.build("propagate")
+ .compositeNode("composite")
+ .event(Event.NODE_END)
+ .listener(new DisplaySource())
+ <emphasis role="bold">.propagationDisabled()</emphasis>
+ .node("a").initial().behaviour(new WaitState())
+ .transition().to("b")
+ .node("b").behaviour(new WaitState())
+ .transition().to("c")
+ .compositeEnd()
+ .node("c").behaviour(new WaitState())
+.done();</programlisting>
+ <para>So when the first signal is given for this process, again the
<literal>node-end</literal>
+ event will be fired on node <literal>a</literal>, but now the event
listener on the composite
+ node will not be executed cause
+ propagated events have been disabled. Disabling propagation is a property on the
individual
+ event listener and doesn't influence the other listeners. The event will always
be fired and
+ propagated over the whole parent hierarchy.
+ </para>
+ <programlisting>ClientExecution execution =
processDefinition.startProcessInstance();</programlisting>
+ <para>The first signal will take the process from
<literal>a</literal> to
+ <literal>b</literal>. No messages will be printed to the console.
+ </para>
+ <programlisting>execution.signal();</programlisting>
+ <para>Next, the second signal will take the transition from b to c.
+ </para>
+ <programlisting>execution.signal()</programlisting>
+ <para>Again two <literal>node-end</literal>
+ events are fired just like above on nodes <literal>b</literal> and
<literal>composite</literal>
+ respectively. The first event
+ is the <literal>node-end</literal> event on node
<literal>b</literal>. That will be propagated
+ to the <literal>composite</literal> node. So the event
+ listener will not be executed for this event cause it has propagation disabled. But
the
+ event listener will be executed for the <literal>node-end</literal> event
on the
+ <literal>composite</literal> node. That is not
+ propagated, but fired directly on the <literal>composite</literal> node.
So the event
+ listener will now be executed
+ only once for the composite node as shown in the following console output:
+ </para>
+ <programlisting>leaving node(composite)</programlisting>
+ </section>
+
+</chapter>
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+<chapter id="processanatomy">
+ <title>Process anatomy</title>
+
+ <para>Above we already touched briefly on the two main process constructs:
+ Nodes, transitions and node composition. This chapter explores in full
+ all the possibilities of the process definition structures.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>There are basically two forms of process languages: graph based and
composite
+ process languages. First of all, the process supports both. Even graph based
execution
+ and node composition can be used in combination to implement something like UML super
states.
+ Furthermore, automatic functional activities can be implemented so that they can be
+ used with transitions as well as with node composition.
+ </para>
+
+ <figure id="process.anatomy">
+ <title>UML class diagram of the logical process structure</title>
+ <mediaobject><imageobject><imagedata align="center"
fileref="images/process.anatomy.classes.png"/></imageobject></mediaobject>
+ </figure>
+
+ <para>Next we'll show a series of example diagram structures that can be
formed
+ with the PVM process model.
+ </para>
+
+ <figure id="transition">
+ <title>Any two nodes can be connected with a transition.</title>
+ <mediaobject><imageobject><imagedata align="center"
fileref="images/transition.png"/></imageobject></mediaobject>
+ </figure>
+
+ <figure id="self.transition">
+ <title>A self transition.</title>
+ <mediaobject><imageobject><imagedata align="center"
fileref="images/self.transition.png"/></imageobject></mediaobject>
+ </figure>
+ <figure id="composite.node">
+ <title>Composite node is a list of nested nodes.</title>
+ <mediaobject><imageobject><imagedata align="center"
fileref="images/composite.node.png"/></imageobject></mediaobject>
+ </figure>
+ <figure id="transition.into.composite">
+ <title>Transition to a node inside a composite.</title>
+ <mediaobject><imageobject><imagedata align="center"
fileref="images/transition.into.composite.png"/></imageobject></mediaobject>
+ </figure>
+ <figure id="transition.out.of.composite">
+ <title>Transition from a node inside a composite to a node outside the
composite.</title>
+ <mediaobject><imageobject><imagedata align="center"
fileref="images/transition.out.of.composite.png"/></imageobject></mediaobject>
+ </figure>
+ <figure id="transition.inheritence">
+ <title>Transition of composite nodes are inherited. The node inside can take
the transition of the composite node.</title>
+ <mediaobject><imageobject><imagedata align="center"
fileref="images/transition.inheritence.png"/></imageobject></mediaobject>
+ </figure>
+ <figure id="transition.to.outer">
+ <title>Transition from a node to an outer composite.</title>
+ <mediaobject><imageobject><imagedata align="center"
fileref="images/transition.to.outer.png"/></imageobject></mediaobject>
+ </figure>
+ <figure id="transition.to.inner">
+ <title>Transition from a composite node to an inner composed
node.</title>
+ <mediaobject><imageobject><imagedata align="center"
fileref="images/transition.to.inner.png"/></imageobject></mediaobject>
+ </figure>
+ <figure id="initial.in.composite">
+ <title>An initial node inside a composite node.</title>
+ <mediaobject><imageobject><imagedata align="center"
fileref="images/initial.in.composite.png"/></imageobject></mediaobject>
+ </figure>
+</chapter>
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+<chapter id="advancedgraphexecution">
+ <title>Advanced graph execution</title>
+
+ <!-- ### LOOPS ########################################################## -->
+ <section>
+ <title>Loops</title>
+ <para>Activities can implement loops based on transitions or on node
composition.
+ Loops can contain wait states.
+ </para>
+ <para>To support high numbers of automatic loop executions, the Process Virtual
Machine
+ tranformed the propagation of execution from tail recursion to a while loop.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <!-- ### SUB PROCESSES ################################################## -->
+ <section>
+ <title>Sub processes</title>
+ <para>TODO: sub processes</para>
+ </section>
+
+ <!-- ### DEFAULT PROCEED BEHAVIOUR ###################################### -->
+ <section id="implicitproceedbehaviour">
+ <title>Implicit proceed behaviour</title>
+ <para>When an <literal>Activity</literal> is used as node
behaviour, it can
+ explicitely propagate the execution with following methods:
+ </para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem><literal>waitForSignal()</literal></listitem>
+ <listitem><literal>take(Transition)</literal></listitem>
+ <listitem><literal>end(*)</literal></listitem>
+ <listitem><literal>execute(Node)</literal></listitem>
+ <listitem><literal>createExecution(*)</literal></listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ <para>When <literal>Activity</literal> implementations used for
node behviour
+ don't call any of the following execution propagation methods, then, after
+ the activity is executed, the execution will apply the implicit proceed behaviour.
+ </para>
+ <para>The implicit proceed behaviour is defined as follows:</para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>If the current node has a default outgoing transition, take
it.</listitem>
+ <listitem>If the current node has a parent node, move back to the parent
node.</listitem>
+ <listitem>Otherwise, end this execution.</listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ <para>Process languages can overwrite the implicit proceed behaviour
+ by overriding the <literal>proceed</literal> method in
+ <literal>ExecutionImpl</literal>.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <!-- ### FUNCTIONAL ACTIVITIES ################################ -->
+ <section id="functionalactivities">
+ <title>Functional activities</title>
+ <para>Activities that also can be used as event listeners are called functional
+ activities. Examples of automatic activities are sending an email, doing a database
+ update, generating a pdf, calculating an average, etc. All of these are automatic
+ activities that do not change the execution flow. Here's how such activities can
+ be implemented:
+ </para>
+ <programlisting>public class FunctionalActivity implements Activity,
EventListener {
+ public void execute(ActivityExecution execution) {
+ perform(execution);
+ }
+ public void notify(EventListenerExecution execution) {
+ perform(execution);
+ }
+ void perform(OpenExecution execution) {
+ ...do functional work...
+ }
+ }</programlisting>
+ <para>The <literal>perform</literal> method takes an
<literal>OpenExecution</literal>,
+ which is the supertype of both <literal>ActivityExecution</literal> and
+ <literal>EventListenerExecution</literal>.
<literal>OpenExecution</literal>
+ does not allow any of the specific purpose methods, but still
+ the current state and the process definition can be inspected as well
+ as the variables, which contain the context information for the process
+ execution.
+ </para>
+ <para>None of these methods actually invoke execution propagation methods.
+ So after the perform method is completed, the execution will
+ <link linkend="implicitproceedbehaviour">proceed in the default
way</link>.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+
+ <!-- ### EXECUTION AND THREADS ########################################## -->
+ <section id="executionandthreads">
+ <title>Execution and threads</title>
+ <para>This section explains how the Process Virtual Machine boroughs the
thread
+ from the client to bring an execution from one wait state to another.
+ </para>
+ <para>When a client invokes a method (like e.g. the signal method) on an
execution,
+ by default, the Process Virtual Machine will use that thread to progress the
execution
+ until it reached a wait state. Once the next wait state has been reached, the
+ method returns and the client gets the thread back. This is the default way
+ for the Process Virtual Machine to operate. Two more levels of asynchonous
+ execution complement this default behaviour:
+ <link linkend="asynchronouscontinuations">Asynchronous
continuations</link>
+ and the <link linkend="architecture">asynchronous command
service</link>.
+ </para>
+ <para>The next process will show the basics concretely. It has three wait
states
+ and four automatic nodes.
+ </para>
+ <figure id="process.automatic">
+ <title>Process with many sequential automatic activities.</title>
+ <mediaobject><imageobject><imagedata align="center"
fileref="images/process.automatic.png"/></imageobject></mediaobject>
+ </figure>
+ <para>Here's how to build the process:</para>
+ <programlisting>ClientProcessDefinition processDefinition =
ProcessFactory.build("automatic")
+ .<emphasis role="bold">node("wait
1").initial()</emphasis>.behaviour(new <emphasis
role="bold">WaitState</emphasis>())
+ .transition().to("automatic 1")
+ .<emphasis role="bold">node("automatic
1")</emphasis>.behaviour(new <emphasis
role="bold">Display("one")</emphasis>)
+ .transition().to("wait 2")
+ .<emphasis role="bold">node("wait
2")</emphasis>.behaviour(new <emphasis
role="bold">WaitState</emphasis>())
+ .transition().to("automatic 2")
+ .<emphasis role="bold">node("automatic
2")</emphasis>.behaviour(new <emphasis
role="bold">Display("two")</emphasis>)
+ .transition().to("automatic 3")
+ .<emphasis role="bold">node("automatic
3")</emphasis>.behaviour(new <emphasis
role="bold">Display("three")</emphasis>)
+ .transition().to("automatic 4")
+ .<emphasis role="bold">node("automatic
4")</emphasis>.behaviour(new <emphasis
role="bold">Display("four")</emphasis>)
+ .transition().to("wait 3")
+ .<emphasis role="bold">node("wait
3")</emphasis>.behaviour(new <emphasis
role="bold">WaitState</emphasis>())
+.done();</programlisting>
+ <para>Let's walk you through one execution of this process.
+ </para>
+ <programlisting>ClientExecution execution =
processDefinition.startProcessInstance();</programlisting>
+ <para>Starting a new execution means that the initial node is executed. So if
an automatic
+ activity is the initial node, this means that immediately the first unnamed outgoing
transition
+ is taken. This happens all inside of the invocation of
<literal>startProcessInstance</literal>.
+ </para>
+ <para>In this case however, the initial node is a wait state. So
+ the method <literal>startProcessInstance</literal> returns immediately
and the execution will be
+ positioned in the initial node 'wait 1'.
+ </para>
+ <figure id="execution.automatic.wait1">
+ <title>A new execution will be positioned in 'wait 1'.</title>
+ <mediaobject><imageobject><imagedata align="center"
fileref="images/execution.automatic.wait1.png"/></imageobject></mediaobject>
+ </figure>
+ <para>Then an external trigger is given with the signal method.</para>
+ <programlisting>execution.signal();</programlisting>
+ <para>As explained above when <link
linkend="externalactivityexample">introducing the WaitState</link>,
+ that signal will cause the default transition to be taken. The
+ transition will move the execution to node <literal>automatic 1</literal>
and execute it.
+ The execute method of the <literal>Display</literal> activity in
<literal>automatic 1</literal>
+ print a line to the console and it will <emphasis
role="bold">not</emphasis> call
+ <literal>execution.waitForSignal()</literal>. Therefore, the execution
will proceed by
+ taking the default transition out of <literal>automatic 1</literal>. At
this stage, the
+ signal method is still blocking. Another way to think about it is that the execution
+ methods like <literal>signal</literal> will use the thread of the client
to interpret
+ the process definition until a wait state is reached.
+ </para>
+ <para>Then the execution arrives in <literal>wait 2</literal> and
executes
+ the <literal>WaitState</literal> activity. That method will invoke
+ the <literal>execution.waitForSignal()</literal>, which will cause the
signal method
+ to return. That is when the thread is given back to the client that invoked the
+ <literal>signal</literal> method.
+ </para>
+ <para>So when the signal method returns, the execution is positioned in
<literal>wait 2</literal>.</para>
+ <figure id="execution.automatic.wait2">
+ <title>One signal brought the execution from 'initial' to 'wait
2'.</title>
+ <mediaobject><imageobject><imagedata align="center"
fileref="images/execution.automatic.wait2.png"/></imageobject></mediaobject>
+ </figure>
+ <para>Then the execution is now waiting for an external trigger just as an
object
+ (more precisely an object graph) in memory until the next external trigger is given
+ with the signal method.
+ </para>
+ <programlisting>execution.signal();</programlisting>
+ <para>This second invocation of signal will take the execution similarly all
the
+ way to <literal>wait 3</literal> before it returns.
+ </para>
+ <figure id="automatic.wait3">
+ <title>The second signal brought the execution all the way to 'wait
3'.</title>
+ <mediaobject><imageobject><imagedata align="center"
fileref="images/ch04.automatic.wait3.png"/></imageobject></mediaobject>
+ </figure>
+ <para>The benefits of using this paradigm is that the same process definition
+ can be executed in <link linkend="clientexecutionmode">client
execution mode</link>
+ (in-memory without persistence) as well as in <link
linkend="persistentexecutionmode">
+ persistent execution mode</link>, depending on the application and on the
environment.
+ </para>
+ <para>When executing a process in persistent mode, this is how you typically
want
+ to bind that process execution to transactions of the database:
+ </para>
+ <figure id="transactions.png">
+ <title>Transactions over time in persistent execution mode.</title>
+ <mediaobject><imageobject><imagedata align="center"
fileref="images/transactions.png"/></imageobject></mediaobject>
+ </figure>
+ <para>In most situations, the computational work that needs to be done as part
of
+ the process after an external trigger (the red pieces) is pretty minimal. Typically
+ transactions combining the process execution and processing the request from the
+ UI takes typically less then a second. Whereas the wait state in business processes
+ typically can span for hours, days or even years. The clue is to clearly distinct
+ when a wait state starts so that only the computational work done before the start
+ of that wait state should be included in the transaction.
+ </para>
+ <para>Think of
+ it this way: "When an approval arrives, what are all the automated
processing that
+ needs to be done before the process system needs to wait for another external
+ trigger?" Unless pdf's need to be generated or mass emails need to be
send,
+ the amount of time that this takes is usually neglectable. That is why in the
+ default persistent execution mode, the process work is executed in the thread
+ of the client.
+ </para>
+ <para>This reasoning even holds in case of concurrent paths of execution.
+ When a single path of execution splits into concurrent paths of execution,
+ the process overhead of calculating that is neglectable. So that is why it
+ makes sense for a fork or split activity implementation that targets persistent
+ execution mode to spawn the concurrent paths sequentially in the same thread.
+ Basically it's all just computational work as part of the same transaction.
+ This can only be done because the fork/split knows that each concurrent path
+ of execution will return whenever a wait state is encountered.
+ </para>
+ <para>Since this is a difficult concept to grasp, I'll explain it again
with other
+ words. Look at it from the overhead that is produced by the process execution
+ itself in persistent execution mode. If in a transaction, an execution is given
+ an external trigger and that causes the execution to split into multiple concurrent
+ paths of execution. Then the process overhead of calculating this is neglectable.
+ Also the overhead of the generated SQL is neglectable. And since all the work done
+ in the concurrent branches must be done inside that single transaction, there is
+ typically no point in having fork/split implementations spawn the concurrent
+ paths of execution in multiple threads.
+ </para>
+ <para>To make executable processes, developers need to know exactly what the
automatic activities
+ are, what the wait states are and which threads will be allocated to the process
execution.
+ For business analysts that draw the analysis process, things are a bit simpler. For
the
+ activities they draw, they usually know whether it's a human or a system that is
responsible.
+ But they typically don't not how this translates to threads and transactions.
+ </para>
+ <para>So for the developer, the first job is to analyse what needs to be
executed
+ within the thread of control of the process and what is outside. Looking for the
external
+ triggers can be a good start to find the wait states in a process, just like verbs
and nouns
+ can be the rule of thumb in building UML class diagrams.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <!-- ### PROCESS CONCURRENCY ############################################ -->
+ <section>
+ <title>Process concurrency</title>
+ <para>To model process concurrency, there is a parent-child tree structure on
the
+ execution. The idea is that the main path of execution is the root of that tree.
+ The main path of execution is also called the process instance. It is the execution
+ that is created when starting or creating a new process instance for a given
+ process definition.
+ </para>
+ <para>Now, because the main path of execution is the same object as the
+ process instance, this keeps the usage simple in case of simple processes
+ without concurrency.
+ </para>
+ <figure id="execution.structure">
+ <title>UML class diagram of the basic execution structure</title>
+ <mediaobject><imageobject><imagedata align="center"
fileref="images/class.diagram.process.execution.png"/></imageobject></mediaobject>
+ </figure>
+ <para>To establish multiple concurrent paths of execution, activity
implementations
+ like a fork or split can create child executions with method
+ <literal>ActivityExecution.createExecution</literal>. Activity
implementations
+ like join or merge can stop these concurrent paths of execution by calling
+ method <literal>stop</literal> on the concurrent execution.
+ </para>
+ <para>Only leaf executions can be active. Non-leave executions should be
+ inactive. This tree structure of executions doesn't enforce a particular type of
+ concurrency or join behaviour. It's up to the forks or and-splits and to the
joins
+ or and-merges to use the execution tree structure in any way they want to define
+ the wanted concurrency behaviour. Here you see an example
+ of concurrent executions.
+ </para>
+ <figure id="concurrency">
+ <title>Concurrent paths of execution</title>
+ <mediaobject><imageobject><imagedata align="center"
fileref="images/execution.concurrency.png"/></imageobject></mediaobject>
+ </figure>
+ <para>There is a billing and a shipping path of execution. In this case, the
+ flat bar nodes represent nodes that fork and join. The execution shows a three
+ executions. The main path of execution is inactive (represented as gray) and the
+ billing and shipping paths of execution are active and point to the node
+ <literal>bill</literal> and <literal>ship</literal>
respectively.
+ </para>
+ <para>It's up to the node behaviour implementations how they want to use
this
+ execution structure. Suppose that multiple tasks have to be completed before the
+ execution is to proceed. The node behaviour can spawn a series of child executions
+ for this. Or alternatively, the task component could support task groups that
+ are associated to one single execution. In that case, the task component becomes
+ responsible for synchronizing the tasks, thereby moving this responsibility
+ outside the scope of the execution tree structure.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <!-- ### EXCEPTION HANDLERS ############################################# -->
+ <section>
+ <title>Exception handlers</title>
+ <para>In all the code that is associated to a process
+ like <literal>Activity</literal>s,
<literal>EventListeners</literal> and
+ <literal>Condition</literal>s, it's possible to associate exception
handlers. This
+ can be thought of as including try-catch blocks in
+ the method implementations of those implementations. But in order to build more
reusable building
+ blocks for both the delegation classes and the exception handling logic, exception
handlers are
+ added to the core process model.
+ </para>
+ <para>An exception handler can be associated to any process element. When an
exception
+ occurs in a delegation class, a matching exception handler will be searched for. If
+ such an exception handler is found, it will get a chance to handle the exception.
+ </para>
+ <para>If an exception handler completes without problems, then the exception is
considered
+ handled and the execution resumes right after the delegation code that was called.
For example,
+ a transition has three actions and the second action throws an exception that is
handled
+ by an exception handler, then
+ </para>
+ <para>Writing automatic activities that are exception handler aware is easy.
The
+ default is to proceed anyway. No method needs to be called on the execution. So
+ if an automatic activity throws an exception that is handled by an exception
handler,
+ the execution will just proceed after that activity. It becomes a big more difficult
+ for control flow activities. They might have to include try-finally blocks to
+ invoke the proper methods on the execution before an exception handler gets a
+ chance to handle the exception. For example, if an activity is a wait state and
+ an exception occurs, then there is a risk that the thread jumps over the
+ invocation of <literal>execution.waitForSignal()</literal>, causing the
execution
+ to proceed after the activity.
+ </para>
+ <para>TODO: exceptionhandler.isRethrowMasked</para>
+ <para>TODO: transactional exception handlers</para>
+ <para>TODO: we never catch errors</para>
+ </section>
+
+ <!-- ### PROCESS MODIFICATIONS ########################################## -->
+ <section>
+ <title>Process modifications</title>
+ <para>TODO: process modifications</para>
+ </section>
+
+ <!-- ### LOCKING AND EXECUTION STATE #################################### -->
+ <section>
+ <title>Locking and execution state</title>
+ <para>The state of an execution is either active or locked. An active
+ execution is either executing or waiting for an external trigger. If an
+ execution is not in <literal>STATE_ACTIVE</literal>, then it is locked.
+ A locked execution is read only and cannot receive any external triggers.
+ </para>
+ <para>When a new execution is created, it is in STATE_ACTIVE. To change
+ the state to a locked state, use lock(String). Some STATE_* constants
+ are provided that represent the most commonly used locked states. But
+ the state '...' in the picture indicates that any string can be provided
+ as the state in the lock method.
+ </para>
+ <figure id="execution.states">
+ <title>States of an execution</title>
+ <mediaobject><imageobject><imagedata align="center"
fileref="images/ch04.execution.states.png"/></imageobject></mediaobject>
+ </figure>
+ <para>If an execution is locked, methods that change the execution will
+ throw a PvmException and the message will reference the actual locking state.
+ Firing events, updating variables, updating priority and adding comments
+ are not considered to change an execution. Also creation and removal of child
+ executions are unchecked, which means that those methods can be invoked by
+ external API clients and node behaviour methods, even while the execution
+ is in a locked state.
+ </para>
+ <para>Make sure that comparisons between getState() and the STATE_* constants
+ are done with .equals and not with '==' because if executions are loaded
+ from persistent storage, a new string is created instead of the constants.
+ </para>
+ <para>An execution implementation will be locked:
+ </para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>When it is ended</listitem>
+ <listitem>When it is suspended</listitem>
+ <listitem>During asynchronous continuations</listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ <para>Furthermore, locking can be used by Activity implementations to make
+ executions read only during wait states hen responsibility for the execution is
+ transferred to an external entity such as:
+ </para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>A human task</listitem>
+ <listitem>A service invocation</listitem>
+ <listitem>A wait state that ends when a scanner detects that a file
appears</listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ <para>In these situations the strategy is that the external entity should get
+ full control over the execution because it wants to control what is allowed
+ and what not. To get that control, they lock the execution so that all interactions
+ have to go through the external entity.
+ </para>
+ <para>One of the main reasons to create external entities is that they can
live
+ on after the execution has already proceeded. For example, in case
+ of a service invocation, a timer could cause the execution to take the timeout
transition.
+ When the response arrives after the timeout, the service invocation entity should
+ make sure it doesn't signal the execution. So the service invocation can be
+ seen as a node instance (aka activity instance) and is unique for every execution
+ of the node.
+ </para>
+ <para>External entities themselves are responsible for managing the execution
+ lock. If the timers and client applications are consequent in addressing the
+ external entities instead of the execution directly, then locking is in theory
+ unnecessary. It's up to the node behaviour implementations whether they want
+ to take the overhead of locking and unlocking.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+</chapter>
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+ <title>Software logging</title>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Configuration</title>
+ <para>PVM can use JDK logging (java.util.logging) or log4j. When the first
message is
+ logged, PVM logging will make the selection with following procedure:
+ <orderedlist>
+ <listitem>If a <literal>logging.properties</literal> resource is
found
+ on the classpath (using the context classloader), then JDK logging will
+ be used and that file will be used to initialize the JDK logging.
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>If log4j is found on the classpath, then log4j will be used.
+ The check for log4j will be done by checking availability of class
+ <literal>org.apache.log4j.LogManager</literal> with the context
classloader.
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>If none of the above, JDK logging will be used.</listitem>
+ </orderedlist>
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Categories</title>
+ <para>The PVM classes use their class name as the category for the logger.
+ </para>
+ <para>To have a basic understanding of what the PVM classes are doing,
+ turning on the <literal>debug</literal> level is great. Level
+ <literal>trace</literal> might be spitting out too much for that
+ purpose.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>JDK logging</title>
+ <para>In JDK logging, <literal>debug</literal>maps to
<literal>fine</literal>
+ and <literal>trace</literal> maps to
<literal>finest</literal>.
+ Level <literal>finer</literal> is not used.
+ </para>
+ <para><literal>org.jbpm.pvm.internal.log.LogFormatter</literal> is
part of
+ the pvm library and it can create a nice one-line output for log messages.
+ It also has a neat feature that creates a unique indentation per thread.
+ To configure it, this is a typical <literal>logging.properties</literal>
+ </para>
+ <programlisting>handlers = java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler
+java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler.level = FINEST
+java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler.formatter = org.jbpm.pvm.internal.log.LogFormatter
+
+# For example, set the com.xyz.foo logger to only log SEVERE messages:
+# com.xyz.foo.level = SEVERE
+
+.level = SEVERE
+org.jbpm.level=FINE
+org.jbpm.tx.level=FINE
+org.jbpm.pvm.internal.wire.level=FINE</programlisting>
+
+<!--
+ <para>For production usage, jBPM also includes an error triggered log handler.
This is
+ a log handler that will only keep the most recent log messages in
+ memory and these will only be flushed to a file in case an error occurs.
+ </para>
+ <para>to configure it, add
<literal>org.jbpm.util.ErrorTriggeredFileHandler</literal>
+ to the handlers in the logging properties like this:
+ </para>
+ <programlisting>handlers = java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler
org.jbpm.util.ErrorTriggeredFileHandler</programlisting>
+ <para>Next snippet shows how in the same logging.properties, the error
+ triggered file handler can be configured. The given values are the default
+ values.
+ </para>
+ <programlisting>org.jbpm.util.ErrorTriggeredFileHandler.size = 500
+org.jbpm.util.ErrorTriggeredFileHandler.push = SEVERE
+org.jbpm.util.ErrorTriggeredFileHandler.pattern = %h/jbpm%u.log</programlisting>
+ <para>Alternatively to using the org.jbpm.util.ErrorTriggeredFileHandler, the
+ JDK handlers FileHandler and MemoryHandler can used in combination to get
+ similar results with a bit more configuration.
+ </para>
+
+-->
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Debugging persistence</title>
+ <para>When testing the persistence, following logging configurations can be
+ valuable. Category <literal>org.hibernate.SQL</literal> shows the SQL
statement that is executed
+ and category <literal>org.hibernate.type</literal> shows the values of
the parameters that are
+ set in the queries.
+ </para>
+ <programlisting>org.hibernate.SQL.level=FINEST
+org.hibernate.type.level=FINEST</programlisting>
+ <para>And in case you get a failed batch as a cause in a hibernate exception,
+ you might want to set the batch size to 0 like this in the hibernate properties:
+ </para>
+ <programlisting>hibernate.jdbc.batch_size = 0</programlisting>
+ <para>Also in the hibernate properties, the following properties allow for
+ detailed logs of the SQL that hibernate spits out:</para>
+ <programlisting>hibernate.show_sql = true
+hibernate.format_sql = true
+hibernate.use_sql_comments = true</programlisting>
+ </section>
+</chapter>
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+<chapter id="delegationclasses">
+ <title>Delegation classes</title>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>What are delegation classes</title>
+ <para>Delegation classes are the classes that implement
+ <literal>Activity</literal> or <literal>Condition</literal>.
From the Process
+ Virtual Machine's perspective, these are external classes that provide
+ programming logic that is inserted into the PVM's graph execution.
+ Delegation classes can be provided by the process languages as well
+ as by the end users.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Configuration of delegation classes</title>
+ <para>Delegation classes can be made configurable. Member fields can
+ contain configuration parameters so that a delegation class can be
+ configured differently each time it is used. For example, in the
+ <literal><link
linkend="activity">Display</link></literal> activity,
+ the message that is to be printed to the console is a configuration
+ parameter.
+ </para>
+ <para>Delegation classes should be stateless. This means that executing the
interface
+ methods should not change values of the member fields. Changing member field values
+ of delegation classes during execution methods is actually changing the process
+ while it's executing. That is not threadsafe and usually leads to unexpected
+ results. As an exception, getters and setters might be made available to inject
+ the configuration cause they are used before the delegation object is actually
+ used in the process execution.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Object references</title>
+ <para>TODO</para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Design time versus runtime</title>
+ <para>TODO: the node behaviour allows for design time as well as runtime
behaviour.</para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>UserCodeInterceptor</title>
+ <para>TODO: UserCodeInterceptor</para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Member field configurations versus properties</title>
+ <para>TODO: document field configurations versus properties</para>
+ </section>
+</chapter>
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+<chapter id="environment">
+ <title>Environment</title>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Introduction</title>
+ <para>The environment component together with the wire context is a kind of
+ Inversion of Control (IoC) container. It reads configuration information that
+ describes how objects should be instantiated, configured and wired together.
+ </para>
+ <para>The environment is used to retrieve resources and services needed by
+ <literal>Activity</literal> implementations and the Process Virtual
Machine
+ itself. The main purpose is to make various aspects of the Process Virtual Machine
+ configurable so that the PVM and the languages that run on top can work
+ in a standard Java environment as well as an enterprise Java environment.
+ </para>
+ <para>The environment is partitioned into a set of contexts. Each context
+ can have its own lifecycle. For instance, the environment-factory context will
+ strech over the full lifetime of the application. The block context only
+ for the duration of a try-finally block. Typically a block context represents
+ a database transaction. Each context exposes a list of key-value
+ pairs.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section id="environmentfactory">
+ <title>EnvironmentFactory</title>
+ <para>To start working with an environment, you need an EnvironmentFactory.
+ One single environment factory object can be used throughout the complete
+ lifetime of the application. So typically this is kept in a static
+ member field. The EnvironmentFactory itself is the environment-factory context.
+ </para>
+ <para>An <literal>EnvironmentFactory</literal> is typically
obtained by
+ parsing a configuration file like this:
+ </para>
+ <programlisting>static EnvironmentFactory environmentFactory =
+ EnvironmentFactory.parse(new
ResourceStreamSource("pvm.cfg.xml");</programlisting>
+ <para>See javadocs package org.jbpm.stream for more types of stream sources.
+ </para>
+ <para>There is a default parser in the environment factory that will
+ create <literal>DefaultEnvironmentFactory</literal>s. The idea is that
we'll
+ also support spring as an IoC container. But that is still TODO. Feel free
+ to help us out :-). The parser can be configured with the static setter
+ method <literal>EnvironmentFactory.setParser(Parser)</literal>
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section id="environmentblock">
+ <title>Environment block</title>
+ <para>An environment exists for the duration of a try-finally block. This is
how
+ an environment block looks like:
+ </para>
+ <programlisting><emphasis role="bold">Environment environment =
environmentFactory.openEnvironment();
+try {
+
+ ...
+
+} finally {
+ environment.close();
+}</emphasis></programlisting>
+ <para>The environment block defines another lifespan: the
<literal>block</literal> context.
+ A transaction would be a typical example of an object that is defined in the block
+ context.
+ </para>
+ <para>Inside such a block, objects can be looked up from the environment by
name
+ or by type. If objects can looked up from the environment with method
+ <literal>environment.get(String name)</literal> or
+ <literal><T> T
environment.get(Class<T>)</literal>.
+ </para>
+ <para>when an environment is created, it has a
<literal>environment-factory</literal> context
+ and a <literal>block</literal>
+ context.
+ </para>
+ <para>In the default implementation, the
<literal>environment-factory</literal> context and
+ the <literal>block</literal> context are
<literal>WireContext</literal>s. A
+ <literal>WireContext</literal> contains a description of how its objects
are
+ created and wired together to form object graphs.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Example</title>
+ <para>To start with a simple example, we'll need a
<literal>Book</literal>:</para>
+ <programlisting>public class <emphasis
role="bold">Book</emphasis> {
+ ...
+ public Book() {}
+ ...
+}</programlisting>
+ <para>Then let's create an environment factory that knows how to create
book</para>
+ <programlisting>static EnvironmentFactory environmentFactory =
EnvironmentFactory.parseXmlString(
+ "<contexts>" +
+ " <environment-factory>" +
+ " <object name='book'
class='org.jbpm.examples.ch09.Book' />" +
+ " </environment-factory>" +
+ "</contexts>"
+));</programlisting>
+ <para>Now we'll create an environment block with this environment factory
and
+ we'll look up the book in the environment. First the lookup is done by
+ type and secondly by name.
+ </para>
+ <programlisting>Environment environment =
environmentFactory.openEnvironment();
+try {
+
+ Book book = <emphasis
role="bold">environment.get(Book.class);</emphasis>
+ assertNotNull(book);
+
+ assertSame(book, <emphasis
role="bold">environment.get("book")</emphasis>);
+
+} finally {
+ environment.close();
+}</programlisting>
+ <para>To prevent that you have to pass the environment as a parameter in
+ all methods, the current environment is maintained in a threadlocal stack:
+ </para>
+ <programlisting>Environment environment =
Environment.getCurrent();</programlisting>
+ </section>
+
+ <section id="context">
+ <title>Context</title>
+ <para>Contexts can be added and removed dynamically. Anything can be exposed
+ as a <literal>Context</literal>.
+ </para>
+ <programlisting>public interface <emphasis
role="bold">Context</emphasis> {
+
+ <emphasis role="bold">Object get(String key);
+ <T> T get(Class<T> type);
+ Set<String> keys();</emphasis>
+
+ ...
+}</programlisting>
+ <para>When doing a lookup on the environment, there is a default search order
+ in which the contexts will be scanned for the requested object. The default
+ order is the inverse of the sequence in which the contexts were added. E.g.
+ if an object is defined in both the environment-factory context and in the block
context,
+ the block context is considered more applicable and that will be scanned first.
+ Alternatively, an explicit search order can be passed in with the
+ <literal>get</literal> lookups as an optional parameter.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+</chapter>
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+ <title>History</title>
+
+ <section id="processlogs">
+ <title>Process logs</title>
+ </section>
+
+ <section id="businessintelligence">
+ <title>Business Intelligence (BI)</title>
+ </section>
+
+ <section id="businessactivitymonitoring">
+ <title>Business Activity Monitoring (BAM)</title>
+ </section>
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+<chapter id="persistence">
+ <title>Persistence</title>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Standard environment configuration</title>
+ <para>This section describes how the environment can be configured to use
+ hibernate in a standard Java environment.
+ </para>
+ <programlisting>01 | <contexts>
+02 |
+03 | <environment-factory>
+04 |<emphasis role="bold"> <hibernate-session-factory
/></emphasis>
+05 |<emphasis role="bold">
<hibernate-configuration></emphasis>
+06 |<emphasis role="bold"> <properties
resource="hibernate.properties" /></emphasis>
+07 |<emphasis role="bold"> <mappings
resource="org/jbpm/pvm/pvm.hibernate.mappings.xml" /></emphasis>
+08 |<emphasis role="bold"> <cache-configuration
</emphasis>
+09 |<emphasis role="bold">
resource="org/jbpm/pvm/pvm.cache.xml" </emphasis>
+10 |<emphasis role="bold">
usage="nonstrict-read-write" /></emphasis>
+11 |<emphasis role="bold">
</hibernate-configuration></emphasis>
+12 | </environment-factory>
+13 |
+14 | <block>
+15 |<emphasis role="bold"> <standard-transaction
/></emphasis>
+16 |<emphasis role="bold"> <hibernate-session
/></emphasis>
+17 |<emphasis role="bold"> <pvm-db-session
/></emphasis>
+18 | </block>
+19 |
+20 | </contexts></programlisting>
+ <para><literal>line 04</literal> specifies a hibernate session
factory in the
+ environment-factory context. This means that a hibernate session factory is lazy
+ created when it is first needed and cached in the
+ <literal>EnvironmentFactory</literal>.
+ </para>
+ <para>A hibernate session factory is build calling the
+ method <literal>buildSessionFactory()</literal> on a hibernate
configuration.
+ By default, the hibernate configuration will be looked up by type.
+ </para>
+ <para><literal>line 05</literal> specifies a hibernate
configuration.
+ </para>
+ <para><literal>line 06</literal> specifies the that the resource
file
+ <literal>hibernate.properties</literal> should be loaded into the
configuration.
+ </para>
+ <para><literal>line 07</literal> (note the plural form of
mapping<emphasis role="bold">s</emphasis>)
+ specifies that resources
<literal>org/jbpm/pvm/pvm.hibernate.mappings.xml</literal> contain references
+ to hibernate mapping files or resources that should be included into the
+ configuration. Also note the plural form of
<literal>resources</literal>.
+ This means that not one, but all the resource files on the whole classpath will be
found.
+ This way new library components containing a
<literal>org/jbpm/pvm/pvm.hibernate.mappings.xml</literal>
+ resource can plug automatically into the same hibernate session by just being added
to
+ the classpath.
+ </para>
+ <para>Alternatively, individual hibernate mapping files can be referenced with
the
+ singular <literal>mapping</literal> element.
+ </para>
+ <para><literal>line 08 - 10</literal> provide a single place to
specify the
+ hibernate caching strategy for all the PVM classes and collections.
+ </para>
+ <para><literal>line 15</literal> specifies a standard transaction.
This is
+ a very simple global transaction strategy without recovery that can be used
+ in standard environments to get all-or-nothing semantics over multiple
+ transactional resources.
+ </para>
+ <para><literal>line 16</literal> specifies the hibernate session
that will
+ automatically register itself with the standard transaction.
+ </para>
+ <para><literal>line 17</literal> specifies a
<literal>PvmDbSession</literal>.
+ That is a class that adds methods that bind to specific queries to be executed
+ on the hibernate session.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Standard hibernate configuration</title>
+ <para>Here is a set of default properties to configure hibernate with
+ hsqldb in a standard Java environment.
+ </para>
+ <programlisting>hibernate.dialect
org.hibernate.dialect.HSQLDialect
+hibernate.connection.driver_class org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver
+hibernate.connection.url jdbc:hsqldb:mem:.
+hibernate.connection.username sa
+hibernate.connection.password
+hibernate.cache.use_second_level_cache true
+hibernate.cache.provider_class
org.hibernate.cache.HashtableCacheProvider</programlisting>
+ <para>Optionally in development the schema export can be used to
+ create the schema when the session factory is created and drop the
+ schema when the session factory is closed.
+ </para>
+ <programlisting>hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto
create-drop</programlisting>
+ <para>For more information about hibernate configurations, see the hibernate
+ reference manual.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Standard transaction</title>
+ <para>By default, the <literal><hibernate-session
/></literal> will
+ start a hibernate transaction with
<literal>session.beginTransaction()</literal>.
+ Then the hibernate transaction is wrapped in a
<literal>org.jbpm.pvm.internal.hibernate.HibernateTransactionResource</literal>
+ and that resource is enlisted with the <literal><standard-transaction
/></literal>
+ (<literal>org.jbpm.tx.StandardTransaction</literal>)
+ </para>
+ <para>Inside of the environment block, the transaction is available
+ through <literal>environment.getTransaction()</literal>. So inside an
+ environment block, the transaction can be rolled back with
+ <literal>environment.getTransaction().setRollbackOnly()</literal>
+ </para>
+ <para>When created, the standard transaction will register itself to be
notified on the
+ close of the environment. So in side the close, the standard transaction will
+ commit or rollback depending on whether
<literal>setRollbackOnly()</literal>
+ was called.
+ </para>
+ <para>So in the configuration shown above, each environment block will be
+ a separate transaction. At least, if the hibernate session is used.</para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Basics of process persistence</title>
+ <para>In the next example, we'll show how this hibernate persistence is
+ used with a concrete example. The 'persistent process' is a simple
+ three-step process:
+ </para>
+ <figure id="the.persistent.process">
+ <title>The persistent process</title>
+ <mediaobject><imageobject><imagedata align="center"
fileref="images/ch09.persistent.process.png"/></imageobject></mediaobject>
+ </figure>
+ <para>The activities in the three nodes will be wait states just like
+ in <xref linkend="externalactivityexample" />
+ </para>
+ <para>To make sure we can persist this class, we create the hibernate mapping
for
+ it and add it to the configuration like this:
+ </para>
+ <programlisting><hibernate-configuration>
+ <properties resource="hibernate.properties" />
+ <mappings resource="org/jbpm/pvm/pvm.hibernate.mappings.xml"
/>
+ <emphasis role="bold"><mapping
resource="org/jbpm/examples/ch09/state.hbm.xml" /></emphasis>
+ <cache-configuration
+ resource="org/jbpm/pvm/pvm.cache.xml"
+ usage="nonstrict-read-write" /></programlisting>
+ <para>The next code pieces show the contents of one unit test method. The
method
+ will first create the environment factory. Then, in a first transaction, a process
+ definition will be created and saved into the database. Then the next transaction
will
+ create a new execution of that process. And the following two transactions will
+ provide external triggers to the execution.
+ </para>
+ <programlisting>EnvironmentFactory environmentFactory =
EnvironmentFactory.parse(new ResourceStreamSource(
+ "org/jbpm/examples/ch09/environment.cfg.xml"
+));</programlisting>
+ <para>Then in a first transaction, a process is created and saved in the
database.
+ This is typically referred to as deploying a process and it only needs to be done
+ once.
+ </para>
+ <programlisting>Environment environment =
environmentFactory.openEnvironment();
+try {
+ PvmDbSession pvmDbSession = environment.get(PvmDbSession.class);
+
+ ProcessDefinition processDefinition = ProcessFactory.build("persisted
process")
+ .node("one").initial().behaviour(new State())
+ .transition().to("two")
+ .node("two").behaviour(new State())
+ .transition().to("three")
+ .node("three").behaviour(new State())
+ .done();
+
+ pvmDbSession.save(processDefinition);
+} finally {
+ environment.close();
+}</programlisting>
+ <para>In the previous transaction, the process definition, the nodes and
transitions
+ will be inserted into the database tables.
+ </para>
+ <para>Next we'll show how a new process execution can be started for this
+ process definition. Note that in this case, we provide <link
linkend="businesskey">a
+ business key</link> called 'first'. This will make it easy for us to
retrieve
+ the same execution from the database in subsequent transactions. After starting
+ the new process execution, it will wait in node 'one' cause the behaviour is
a
+ wait state.
+ </para>
+ <programlisting>environment = environmentFactory.openEnvironment();
+try {
+ PvmDbSession pvmDbSession = environment.get(PvmDbSession.class);
+
+ ProcessDefinition processDefinition =
pvmDbSession.findProcessDefinition("persisted process");
+ assertNotNull(processDefinition);
+
+ Execution execution = processDefinition.startExecution("first");
+ assertEquals("one", execution.getNode().getName());
+ pvmDbSession.save(execution);
+
+} finally {
+ environment.close();
+}</programlisting>
+ <para>In the previous transaction, a new execution record will be inserted into
+ the database.
+ </para>
+ <para>Next we feed in an external trigger into this existing process
execution.
+ We load the execution, provide a signal and just save it back into the database.
+ </para>
+ <programlisting>environment = environmentFactory.openEnvironment();
+try {
+ PvmDbSession pvmDbSession = environment.get(PvmDbSession.class);
+
+ Execution execution = pvmDbSession.findExecution("persisted process",
"first");
+ assertNotNull(execution);
+ assertEquals("one", execution.getNode().getName());
+
+ // external trigger that will cause the execution to execute until
+ // it reaches the next wait state
+ execution.signal();
+
+ assertEquals("two", execution.getNode().getName());
+
+ pvmDbSession.save(execution);
+
+} finally {
+ environment.close();
+}</programlisting>
+ <para>The previous transaction will result in an update of the existing
+ execution, reassigning the foreign key to reference another record in
+ the node table.
+ </para>
+ <programlisting>UPDATE JBPM_EXECUTION
+SET
+ NODE_=?,
+ DBVERSION_=?,
+ ...
+WHERE DBID_=?
+ AND DBVERSION_=?</programlisting>
+ <para>The version in this SQL shows the automatic optimistic locking that
+ is baked into the PVM persistence so that process persistence can easily
+ scale to multiple JVM's or multiple machines.
+ </para>
+ <para>In the example code, there is one more transaction that is
+ completely similar to the previous which takes the execution from
+ node 'two' to node 'three'.
+ </para>
+ <para>All of this shows that the PVM can move from one wait state to
+ another wait state transactionally. Each transaction correcponds to
+ a state transition.
+ </para>
+ <para>Note that in case of automatic activities, multiple activities
+ will be executed before the execution reaches a wait state. Typically
+ that is desired behaviour. In case the automatic activities take too
+ long or you don't want to block the original transaction to wait for
+ the completion of those automatic activities, check out <xref
linkend="asynchronouscontinuations"/>
+ to learn about how it's possible to demarcate transactions in the process
+ definition, which can also be seen as safe-points during process execution.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section id="businesskey">
+ <title>Business key</title>
+ <para>TODO</para>
+ </section>
+
+
+ <para>TODO: General persistence architecture
+ </para>
+ <para>TODO: Object references
+ </para>
+ <para>TODO: Threads, concurrency with respect to forks and joins
+ </para>
+ <para>TODO: Caching
+ </para>
+ <para>TODO: Process instance migration
+ </para>
+</chapter>
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+ <title>Process languages</title>
+
+ <para>TODO: xml parser infrastructure
+ </para>
+ <para>TODO: inherit from ProcessDefinitionImpl, ExecutionImpl
+ </para>
+ <para>TODO: overriding the default proceed()
+ </para>
+ <para>TODO: node type implementations
+ </para>
+ <para>TODO: persistence
+ </para>
+ <para>TODO: compensation: languages like bpel and bpnm define that
+ as a normal contination that fits within the process
+ structures available in the pvm (taking a transition and
+ executing a nested node).
+ </para>
+</chapter>
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+ <!ENTITY ch03-BasicProcessPersistence SYSTEM
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+ <!ENTITY ExamplesToIncorporate SYSTEM
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+]>
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+<book lang="en">
+
+ <bookinfo>
+ <title>The Process Virtual Machine: Tutorial</title>
+ <subtitle>A library for building executable state machines. It can can
+ serve as the foundation for any form of BPM, workflow and orchestration.
+ </subtitle>
+ </bookinfo>
+
+ <toc />
+
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+ &ch03-BasicProcessPersistence;
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+<chapter>
+ <title>These examples need to be incorporated</title>
+
+ <!-- ### GRAPH BASED CONTROL FLOW ACTIVITIES ############################ -->
+ <section id="graphbasedcontrolflowactivities">
+ <title>Graph based control flow activities</title>
+
+ <!-- ### AUTOMATIC DECISION ########################################### -->
+ <section id="automaticdecision">
+ <title>Automatic decision</title>
+ <para>This example shows how to implement automatic conditional branching.
This is mostly called
+ a decision or an or-split. It selects one path of execution from many alternatives.
A decision node
+ should have multiple outgoing transitions.
+ </para>
+ <para>In a decision, information is collected from somewhere. Usually that
is the process
+ variables. But it can also collect information from a database, a file, any other
+ form of input or a combination of these. In this example, a variable
<literal>creditRate</literal>
+ is used. It contains an integer. The higher the integer, the better the credit
rating.
+ Let's look at the example implementation:
+ </para>
+ <para>Then based on the obtained information, in our case that is the
<literal>creditRate</literal>,
+ an outgoing transition has to be selected.
+ In the example, transition <literal>good</literal> will be selected
when the creditRate is
+ above 5, transition <literal>bad</literal> will be selected when
creditRate is below -5
+ and otherwise transition <literal>average</literal> will be selected.
+ </para>
+ <para>Once the selection is done, the transition is taken with
+ <literal>execution.take(String)</literal> or
+ the <literal>execution.take(Transition)</literal> method.
+ </para>
+ <programlisting>public class AutomaticCreditRating implements Activity {
+ public void execute(Execution execution) {
+ <emphasis role="bold">int creditRate = (Integer)
execution.getVariable("creditRate");
+
+ if (creditRate > 5) {
+ execution.take("good");
+
+ } else if (creditRate < -5) {
+ execution.take("bad");
+
+ } else {
+ execution.take("average");
+ }</emphasis>
+ }
+ }</programlisting>
+ <para>We'll demonstrate the
<literal>AutomaticCreditRating</literal> in the following
+ process:</para>
+ <figure id="example.process.automatic.credit.rating">
+ <title>The decision process</title>
+ <mediaobject><imageobject><imagedata align="center"
fileref="images/transition.decision.png"/></imageobject></mediaobject>
+ </figure>
+ <programlisting>ProcessDefinition processDefinition = ProcessFactory.build()
+ .node("initial").initial().behaviour(new WaitState())
+ .transition().to("creditRate?")
+ <emphasis role="bold">.node("creditRate?").behaviour(new
AutomaticCreditRating())
+ .transition("good").to("a")
+ .transition("average").to("b")
+ .transition("bad").to("c")</emphasis>
+ .node("a").behaviour(new WaitState())
+ .node("b").behaviour(new WaitState())
+ .node("c").behaviour(new WaitState())
+.done();</programlisting>
+ <para>Executing this process goes like this:
+ </para>
+ <programlisting>Execution execution =
processDefinition.startExecution();</programlisting>
+ <para><literal>startExecution()</literal> will bring the
execution into the <literal>initial</literal>
+ node. That's a wait state so the execution will point to that node when the
+ <literal>startExecution()</literal> returns.
+ </para>
+ <para>Then we have a chance to set the
<literal>creditRate</literal> to a specific
+ value like e.g. 13.</para>
+ <programlisting>execution.setVariable("creditRate",
13);</programlisting>
+ <para>Next, we provide a signal so that the execution takes the default
+ transition to the <literal>creditRate?</literal> node. Since process
variable
+ <literal>creditRate</literal> is set to 13, the
<literal>AutomaticCreditRating</literal>
+ activity will take transition <literal>good</literal> to node
<literal>a</literal>.
+ Node <literal>a</literal> is a wait state so them the invocation of
<literal>signal</literal>
+ will return.
+ </para>
+ <para>Similarly, a decision can be implemented making use of the
+ transition's guard condition. For each outgoing transition, the guard
condition
+ expression can be evaluated. The first transition for which its guard condition
+ evaluates to true is taken.
+ </para>
+ <para>This example showed automatic conditional branching. Meaning that all
+ information is available when the execution arrives in the decision node, even
+ if it may have to be collected from different sources. In the next example,
+ we show how a decision is implemented for which an external entity needs to
+ supply the information, which results into a wait state.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <!-- ### EXTERNAL DECISION ############################################ -->
+ <section id="externaldecision">
+ <title>External decision</title>
+ <para>This example shows an activity that again selects one path of
execution
+ out of many alternatives. But this time, the information on which the decision
+ is based is not yet available when the execution arrives at the decision.
+ In other words, the execution will have to wait in the decision until the
+ information is provided from externally.
+ </para>
+ <programlisting>public class <emphasis
role="bold">ExternalSelection</emphasis> implements ExternalActivity {
+
+ public void execute(Execution execution) {
+ <emphasis role="bold">execution.waitForSignal();</emphasis>
+ }
+
+ public void signal(Execution execution, String signalName, Map<String,
Object> parameters) throws Exception {
+ <emphasis role="bold">execution.take(signalName);</emphasis>
+ }
+
+ public Set<SignalDefinition> getSignals(Execution execution) throws
Exception {
+ return null;
+ }
+}</programlisting>
+ <para>The diagram for this external decision will be the same as for the
+ automatic decision:
+ </para>
+ <figure id="example.process.external.decision">
+ <title>A decision</title>
+ <mediaobject><imageobject><imagedata align="center"
fileref="images/transition.decision.png"/></imageobject></mediaobject>
+ </figure>
+ <programlisting>ProcessDefinition processDefinition = ProcessFactory.build()
+ .node("initial").initial().behaviour(new WaitState())
+ .transition().to("creditRate?")
+ <emphasis role="bold">.node("creditRate?").behaviour(new
ExternalSelection())
+ .transition("good").to("a")
+ .transition("average").to("b")
+ .transition("bad").to("c")</emphasis>
+ .node("a").behaviour(new WaitState())
+ .node("b").behaviour(new WaitState())
+ .node("c").behaviour(new WaitState())
+.done();</programlisting>
+ <para>The execution starts the same as in the automatic example. After
starting
+ a new execution, it will be pointing to the initial wait state.
+ </para>
+ <programlisting>Execution execution =
processDefinition.startExecution();</programlisting>
+ <para>But the next signal will cause the execution to take the default
+ transition out of the <literal>initial</literal> node and arrive in the
+ <literal>creditRate?</literal> node. Then the
<literal>ExternalSelection</literal>
+ is executed, which will result into a wait state. So when the invocation
+ of <literal>signal()</literal> returns, the execution will be pointing
to the
+ <literal>creditRate?</literal> node and it expects an external
trigger.
+ </para>
+ <para>Next we'll give an external trigger with
<literal>good</literal> as
+ the signalName. So supplying the external trigger is done together with
+ feeding the information needed by the decision.
+ </para>
+ <programlisting>execution.signal("good");</programlisting>
+ <para>That external trigger will be translated by the
<literal>ExternalSelection</literal>
+ activity into taking the transition with name <literal>good</literal>.
That way
+ the execution will have arrived in node <literal>a</literal> when
+ <literal>signal("good")</literal> returns.
+ </para>
+ <para>Note that both parameters <literal>signalName</literal> and
<literal>parameters</literal>
+ can be used by external activities as they want. In the example here, we used the
+ signalName to specify the result. But another variation might expect an integer
value
+ under the <literal>creditRate</literal> key of the parameters.
+ </para>
+ <para>But leveraging the execution API like that is not done very often in
practice.
+ The reason is that for most external functions, typically activity instances are
+ created. Think about <literal>Task</literal> as an instance of a
+ <literal>TaskActivity</literal> (see later) or analogue, a
<literal>ServiceInvocation</literal>
+ could be imagined as an instance of a
<literal>ServiceInvocationActivity</literal>.
+ In those cases, those activity instances make the link between the external
+ activity and the execution. And these instances also can make sure that an
+ execution is not signalled inappropriately. Inappropriate signalling could happen
+ when for instance a service response message would arrive twice. If in such a
+ scenario, the message receiver would just signal the execution, it would not
+ notice that the second time, the execution is not positioned in the service
invocation
+ node any more.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+ </section>
+
+ <!-- ### COMPOSITE BASED CONTROL FLOW ACTIVITIES ######################## -->
+ <section id="compositebasedcontrolflowactivities">
+ <title>Composite based control flow activities</title>
+
+ <!-- ### COMPOSITE SEQUENCE ############################################# -->
+ <section>
+ <title>Composite sequence</title>
+ <para>Block structured languages like BPEL are completely based on composite
nodes. Such
+ languages don't have transitions. The composite node structure of the Process
Virtual Machine
+ allows to build a process with a structure that exactly matches the block structured
+ languages. There is no need for a conversion to a transition based model. We have
+ already discussed some examples of composite nodes. The following example
+ will show howw to implement a sequence, one of the most common composite
+ node types.
+ </para>
+ <para>A sequence has a list of nested activities that need to be executed
+ in sequence.
+ </para>
+ <para>This is how a sequence can be implemented:
+ </para>
+ <programlisting>public class Sequence implements ExternalActivity {
+
+ public void <emphasis role="bold">execute</emphasis>(Execution
execution) {
+ List<Node> nodes = execution.getNode().getNodes();
+ execution.execute(nodes.get(0));
+ }
+
+ public void <emphasis role="bold">signal</emphasis>(Execution
execution, String signal, Map<String, Object> parameters) {
+ Node previous = execution.getPreviousNode();
+ List<Node> nodes = execution.getNode().getNodes();
+ int previousIndex = nodes.indexOf(previous);
+ int nextIndex = previousIndex+1;
+ if (nextIndex < nodes.size()) {
+ Node next = nodes.get(nextIndex);
+ execution.execute(next);
+ } else {
+ execution.proceed();
+ }
+ }
+
+ public Set<SignalDefinition> getSignals(Execution execution) {
+ return null;
+ }
+}</programlisting>
+ <para>When an execution arrives in this sequence, the <emphasis
role="bold">execute</emphasis>
+ method will execute the first node in the list of child nodes (aka composite nodes or
+ nested nodes). The sequence assumes that
+ the child node's behaviour doesn't have outgoing transitions and will end
with
+ an <literal>execution.proceed()</literal>. That proceed will cause the
execution
+ to be propagated back to the parent (the sequence) with a signal.
+ </para>
+ <para>The <emphasis role="bold">signal</emphasis> method
will look up the previous
+ node from the execution, determine its index in the list of child nodes and
increments
+ it. If there is a next node in the list it is executed. If the previous node was
the
+ last one in the list, the proceed is called, which will propagate the execution to
+ the parent of the sequence in case there are no outgoing transitions.
+ </para>
+ <para>To optimize persistence of executions, the previous node of an execution
is
+ normally not maintained and will be to null. If a node requires the previous
+ node or the previous transition like in this Sequence, the property
+ <literal>isPreviousNeeded</literal> must be set on the node.
+ </para>
+ <para>Let's look at how that translates to a process and an
execution:</para>
+ <figure id="sequence">
+ <title>A sequence.</title>
+ <mediaobject><imageobject><imagedata align="center"
fileref="images/sequence.png"/></imageobject></mediaobject>
+ </figure>
+ <programlisting>ProcessDefinition processDefinition =
ProcessFactory.build("sequence")
+ <emphasis
role="bold">.compositeNode("sequence").initial().behaviour(new
Sequence())
+ .needsPrevious()</emphasis>
+ .node("one").behaviour(new Display("one"))
+ .node("wait").behaviour(new WaitState())
+ .node("two").behaviour(new Display("two"))
+ .compositeEnd()
+.done();</programlisting>
+ <para>The three numbered nodes will now be executed in sequence. Nodes
<literal>1</literal>
+ and <literal>2</literal> are automatic
<literal>Display</literal> activities, while
+ node <literal>wait</literal> is a wait state.
+ </para>
+ <programlisting>Execution execution =
processDefinition.startExecution();</programlisting>
+ <para>The <literal>startExecution</literal> will execute the
<literal>Sequence</literal>
+ activity. The <literal>execute</literal> method of the sequence will
immediately execute
+ node 1, which will print message <literal>one</literal> on the console.
Then the
+ execution is automatically proceeded back to the sequence. The sequence will have
+ access to the previous node. It will look up the index and execute the next.
+ That will bring the execution to node <literal>wait</literal>, which is a
wait state.
+ At that point, the <literal>startExecution()</literal> will return.
+ A new external trigger is needed to complete the wait state.
+ </para>
+ <programlisting>execution.signal();</programlisting>
+ <para>That signal will delegate to the
<literal>WaitState</literal>'s signal method.
+ That method is empty so the execution will <link
linkend="defaultproceedbehaviour">proceed
+ in a default way</link>. Since there are no outgoing transitions, the
execution will
+ be propagated back to the sequence node, which will be signalled. Then node
+ <literal>2</literal> is executed. When the execution comes back into the
sequence
+ it will detect that the previously executed node was the last child node,
+ therefore, no propagation method will be invoked, causing the default proceed
+ to end the execution. The console will show:
+ </para>
+ <programlisting>one
+two</programlisting>
+ </section>
+
+ <!-- ### COMPOSITE DECISION ############################################# -->
+ <section id="compositedecision">
+ <title>Composite decision</title>
+ <para>In a composite model, the node behaviour can use the
+ <literal>execution.execute(Node)</literal> method to execute one of the
child nodes.
+ </para>
+ <figure id="composite.decision">
+ <title>A decision based on node composition</title>
+ <mediaobject><imageobject><imagedata align="center"
fileref="images/composite.decision.png"/></imageobject></mediaobject>
+ </figure>
+ <programlisting>ProcessDefinition processDefinition = ProcessFactory.build()
+ <emphasis
role="bold">.compositeNode("creditRate?").initial().behaviour(new
CompositeCreditRating())
+ .node("good").behaviour(new ExternalSelection())
+ .node("average").behaviour(new ExternalSelection())
+ .node("bad").behaviour(new ExternalSelection())
+ .compositeEnd()</emphasis>
+.done();</programlisting>
+ <para>The <literal>CompositeCreditRating</literal> is an
automatic decision, implemented like this:</para>
+ <programlisting>public class <emphasis
role="bold">CompositeCreditRating</emphasis> implements Activity {
+
+ public void execute(Execution execution) {
+ int creditRate = (Integer) execution.getVariable("creditRate");
+
+ if (creditRate > 5) {
+ execution.execute("good");
+
+ } else if (creditRate < -5) {
+ execution.execute("bad");
+
+ } else {
+ execution.execute("average");
+ }
+ }
+}</programlisting>
+ <para>So when we start a new execution with</para>
+ <programlisting>Map<String, Object> variables = new
HashMap<String, Object>();
+variables.put("creditRate", 13);
+Execution execution = processDefinition.startExecution(variables);
+</programlisting>
+ <para>The execution will execute the
<literal>CompositeCreditRating</literal>. The
+ <literal>CompositeCreditRating</literal> will execute node
<literal>good</literal>
+ cause the process variable <literal>creditRate</literal> is 13. When
the
+ <literal>startExecution()</literal> returns, the execution will be
positioned in
+ the good state. The other scenarios are very similar.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+ </section>
+
+ <!-- ### HUMAN TASKS #################################################### -->
+ <section>
+ <title>Human tasks</title>
+ <para>This section will demonstrate how support for human tasks can be build on
top
+ of the Process Virtual Machine.
+ </para>
+ <para>As we indicated in <xref linkend="executionandthreads"
/>, for each step in the process
+ the most important characteristic is whether responsibility for an activity lies
within the
+ process system or outside. In case of a human task, it should be clear that the
responsibility
+ is outside of the process system. This means that for the process, a human task is a
wait state.
+ The execution will have to wait until the person provides the external trigger that
the task
+ is completed or submitted.
+ </para>
+ <figure id="tasks">
+ <title>Overview of the link between processes and tasks.</title>
+ <mediaobject><imageobject><imagedata align="center"
fileref="images/tasks.png"/></imageobject></mediaobject>
+ </figure>
+ <para>In the picture above, the typical link between process execution and
tasks is
+ represented. When an execution arrives in a task node, a task is created in a task
component.
+ Typically such a task will end up in a task table somewhere in the task
component's
+ database. Then users can look at their task lists. A task list is then a filter on
+ the complete task list based on the task's assigned user column. When the user
completes
+ the task, the execution is signalled and typically leaves the node in the process.
+ </para>
+ <para>A task management component keeps track of tasks for people. To
integrate human tasks
+ into a process, we need an API to create new tasks and to get notifications of task
+ completions. The following example might have only a rudimentary integration between
+ between process execution and the task management component, but the goal is to show
+ the interactions as clearly as possible. Real process languages like jPDL have a
+ much better integration between process execution and tasks, resulting in more
complexity.
+ </para>
+ <para>For this example we'll first define a simplest task component with
classes
+ <literal>Task</literal> and
<literal>TaskComponent</literal>:
+ </para>
+ <programlisting>public class <emphasis
role="bold">Task</emphasis> {
+ public String userId;
+ public String taskName;
+ public Execution execution;
+
+ public Task(String userId, String taskName, Execution execution) {
+ this.userId = userId;
+ this.taskName = taskName;
+ this.execution = execution;
+ }
+
+ public void <emphasis role="bold">complete</emphasis>() {
+ execution.signal();
+ }
+}</programlisting>
+ <para>This task has public fields to avoid the getters and setters. The
taskName property
+ is the short description of the task. The userId is a reference to the user that is
+ assigned to this task. And the execution is a reference to the execution to which
this
+ task relates. When a task completes it signals the execution.
+ </para>
+ <para>The next task component manages a set of tasks.
+ </para>
+ <programlisting>public class TaskComponent {
+
+ static List<Task> tasks = new ArrayList<Task>();
+
+ public static void createTask(String taskName, Execution execution) {
+ String userId = assign(taskName, execution);
+ tasks.add(new Task(userId, taskName, execution));
+ }
+
+ private static String assign(String taskName, Execution execution) {
+ return "johndoe";
+ }
+
+ public static List<Task> getTaskList(String userId) {
+ List<Task> taskList = new ArrayList<Task>();
+ for (Task task : tasks) {
+ if (task.userId.equals(userId)) {
+ taskList.add(task);
+ }
+ }
+ return taskList;
+ }
+}</programlisting>
+ <para>To keep this example short, this task component is to be accessed through
+ static methods. The assigning tasks is done hard coded to "johndoe".
Tasks
+ can be created and tasklists can be extracted by userId. Next we can look at
+ the node behaviour implementation of a TaskActivity.
+ </para>
+ <programlisting>public class <emphasis
role="bold">TaskActivity</emphasis> implements ExternalActivity {
+
+ public void <emphasis role="bold">execute</emphasis>(Execution
execution) {
+ // let's use the node name as the task id
+ String taskName = execution.getNode().getName();
+ TaskComponent.createTask(taskName, execution);
+ }
+
+ public void <emphasis role="bold">signal</emphasis>(Execution
execution, String signal, Map<String, Object> parameters) {
+ execution.takeDefaultTransition();
+ }
+
+ public Set<SignalDefinition> getSignals(Execution execution) {
+ return null;
+ }
+}</programlisting>
+ <para>The task node works as follows. When an execution arrives in a task
node,
+ the execute method of the TaskActivity is invoked. The execute method will then
+ take the node name and use it as the task name. Alternatively, 'taskName'
could
+ be a configuration property on the TaskActivity class. The task name is then used
+ to create a task in the task component. Once the task is created, the execution
+ is not propagated which means that the execution will wait in this node till
+ a signal comes in.
+ </para>
+ <para>When the task is completed with the Task.complete() method, it will
+ signal the execution. The TaskActivity's signal implementation will take
+ the default transition.
+ </para>
+ <para>This is how a process can be build with a task node:
+ </para>
+ <programlisting>ProcessDefinition processDefinition =
ProcessFactory.build("task")
+ .node("initial").initial().behaviour(new AutomaticActivity())
+ .transition().to("shred evidence")
+ .<emphasis role="bold">node("shred evidence").behaviour(new
TaskActivity())</emphasis>
+ .transition().to("next")
+ .node("next").behaviour(new WaitState())
+.done();</programlisting>
+ <para>When a new execution is started, the initial node is an automatic
activity.
+ So it will immediately propagate to the task node the task will be created and
+ the execution will stop in the 'shred evidence' node.
+ </para>
+ <programlisting>Execution execution = processDefinition.startExecution();
+
+assertEquals("shred evidence", execution.getNode().getName());
+
+Task task =
TaskComponent.getTaskList("johndoe").get(0);</programlisting>
+ <para>Next, time can elapse until the human user is ready to complete the
task.
+ In other words, the thread of control is now with 'johndoe'. When John
+ completes his task e.g. through a web UI, then this should result into an
+ invocation of the complete method on the task.
+ </para>
+ <programlisting>task.complete();
+
+assertEquals("next", execution.getNode().getName());</programlisting>
+ <para>The invocation of the complete method cause the execution to take the
+ default transition to the 'next' node.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+</chapter>
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+<chapter id="gettingstarted">
+ <title>Getting started</title>
+
+ <para>This tutorial is the best way to get started with the Process
+ Virtual Machine. It walks you through the examples that
+ come with the pvm download. In this section, we'll guide you through the
+ download and installation process.
+ </para>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Prerequisites</title>
+ <para><ulink
url="http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp">JDK 5+</ulink>
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Download PVM</title>
+ <para><ulink
url="http://www.jboss.org/jbossjbpm/pvm_downloads/">Download the
PVM</ulink>
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Install PVM</title>
+ <para>The PVM comes as a zip file. Unzip it to a directory of your choice to
+ install it. Voila, you're all set. Following directories and files are
+ now on your system:
+ </para>
+ <figure id="pvm.unzipped">
+ <title>Eclipse unzipped</title>
+ <mediaobject><imageobject><imagedata align="center"
fileref="images/pvm.unzipped.png"/></imageobject></mediaobject>
+ </figure>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem><literal><emphasis
role="bold">jbpm-pvm-x.x/jbpm-pvm.jar</emphasis></literal>: the
+ jBPM PVM java archive library.</listitem>
+ <listitem><literal><emphasis
role="bold">jbpm-pvm-x.x/release.notes.html</emphasis></literal>:
the
+ release notes describing what changed relative to the previous
release.</listitem>
+ <listitem><literal><emphasis
role="bold">jbpm-pvm-x.x/doc/tutorial/index.html</emphasis></literal>:
+ this tutorial</listitem>
+ <listitem><literal><emphasis
role="bold">jbpm-pvm-x.x/doc/reference/index.html</emphasis></literal>:
+ the reference manual</listitem>
+ <listitem><literal><emphasis
role="bold">jbpm-pvm-x.x/doc/api/index.html</emphasis></literal>:
+ the javadocs of the PVM interface classes</listitem>
+ <listitem><literal><emphasis
role="bold">jbpm-pvm-x.x/doc/wirexsd/index.html</emphasis></literal>:
+ the documentation of the wire XML schema used for configuring the PVM in
+ transactional and persistent environments</listitem>
+ <listitem><literal><emphasis
role="bold">jbpm-pvm-x.x/doc/tutorial/index.html</emphasis></literal>:
this</listitem>
+ <listitem><literal><emphasis
role="bold">jbpm-pvm-x.x/lib</emphasis></literal>: contains all
the
+ third party libraries on which the PVM might have a dependency. The idea is that
+ a library only needs to be on the classpath in case the related functionality
+ is actually used.</listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Library dependencies</title>
+ <para>For building and executing processes the jbpm-pvm.jar does not have any
other
+ dependencies then on the JVM. If you're using DB persistence, then there is a
dependency
+ on hibernate and it's dependencies. More information about the optional
depedencies can
+ be found in <ulink
url="../../../../lib/optional-dependencies.html">file
optional.dependencies.html
+ in the lib directory</ulink>.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Set up eclipse</title>
+ <para>You can use and IDE, but we'll be giving the detailed setup for
eclipse
+ here, version eclipse-java-europa-winter-win32.zip.
+ </para>
+ <para>Go to the <ulink
url="http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/">downloads section at the
+ eclipse website.</ulink> Select "Eclipse IDE for Java Developers" for
your platform.
+ Download and unzip to any directory on your file system. We'll be using
+ <literal>c:\eclipse</literal>
+ </para>
+ <figure id="eclipse.unzipped">
+ <title>Eclipse unzipped</title>
+ <mediaobject><imageobject><imagedata align="center"
fileref="images/eclipse.unzipped.png"/></imageobject></mediaobject>
+ </figure>
+ <para>Start <literal>eclipse.exe</literal> in
<literal>c:\eclipse</literal>. When
+ prompted for the workspace, select <literal>c:\workspace</literal> and
tick the
+ checkbox so that you're not asked again.</para>
+ <figure id="eclipse.workspace.dir">
+ <title>Eclipse workpace dir</title>
+ <mediaobject><imageobject><imagedata align="center"
fileref="images/eclipse.workspace.dir.png"/></imageobject></mediaobject>
+ </figure>
+ <para>Then eclipse opens and you can close the welcome screen. Now you're
ready to start
+ creating the pvm project in your workspace.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Create the pvm eclipse project</title>
+ <para>In eclipse, select File --> New --> Java Project like
this</para>
+ <figure id="eclipse.new.project">
+ <title>Eclipse new Java Project</title>
+ <mediaobject><imageobject><imagedata align="center"
fileref="images/eclipse.new.project.png"/></imageobject></mediaobject>
+ </figure>
+ <para>In the New Java Project dialog, enter <literal>pvm</literal>
as the project
+ name, select "Create new project from existing source"
+ </para>
+ <para>In the "Browse For Folder" dialog, select the
<literal>c:\jbpm-pvm-1.x</literal>
+ directory and click OK.
+ </para>
+ <figure id="eclipse.select.project.dir">
+ <title>Select project directory</title>
+ <mediaobject><imageobject><imagedata align="center"
fileref="images/eclipse.select.project.dir.png"/></imageobject></mediaobject>
+ </figure>
+ <para>Click <emphasis role="bold">"Next
>"</emphasis>.</para>
+ <para>In the Source tab, select the <literal>src</literal>
directory in
+ pvm and click the button "Remove from Build Path", which is indicated with
the
+ red circle in the following snapshot.</para>
+ <figure id="eclipse.remove.src">
+ <title>Remove src from Build Path</title>
+ <mediaobject><imageobject><imagedata align="center"
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+ </figure>
+ <para>Next, we'll attach the sources of the pvm to the pvm library. In the
+ 'Libraries' tab, open the jbpm-pvm.jar, select 'Source attachment'
and
+ click Edit. In the dialog, select 'Workspace' and then select /pvm/src.
+ </para>
+ <figure id="eclipse.attach.src">
+ <title>Attach pvm sources to library</title>
+ <mediaobject><imageobject><imagedata align="center"
fileref="images/eclipse.attach.src.png"/></imageobject></mediaobject>
+ </figure>
+ <para>Then click 'OK' in the two open dialogs and click
'Finish' in the
+ 'New Java Project' dialog and you have the pvm project in eclipse all set up.
+ </para>
+ <para>Next, you can open the examples like e.g.
<literal>org.jbpm.pvm.ex01.BasicProcessExecutionTest</literal>
+ </para>
+ <figure id="eclipse.ex01">
+ <title>Running the first example</title>
+ <mediaobject><imageobject><imagedata align="center"
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+ </figure>
+ <para>The example tests can be executed with 'Run --> Run As
--> JUnit Test' or with
+ 'Run --> Debug As --> JUnit Test'.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+</chapter>
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+<chapter id="basicprocessexecution">
+ <title>Basic Process Execution</title>
+
+ <para>In it's most basic usage, the Process Virtual Machine is a framework
for
+ implementing state machines. It separates the structure of a process
+ from the runtime behaviour. The nodes, transitions and composite nodes
+ form the structure. Activities implement the runtime behaviour and are
+ associated to each of the nodes.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>Let's look at the first example. A simple process with 5 consequetive
+ nodes. We'll use two node types. An automatic activity and a wait state.
+ The automatic activity is implemented like this:
+ </para>
+
+ <programlisting>public class AutomaticActivity implements Activity {
+
+ public void execute(Execution execution) {
+ }
+}</programlisting>
+
+ <para>This activity implements the behaviour of a node. The default behaviour is
to
+ proceed over the default outgoing transition. So the empty
<literal>execute</literal>
+ means that the default outgoing transition is taken immediately when an execution
arrives
+ in this node.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>Implementing a wait state involves an extra method. An invocation of
+ <literal>execution.waitForSignal()</literal> will cause the execution to
stop
+ and wait in the node until an external trigger is provided into the execution.
+ So an extra <literal>signal</literal> method needs to be provided that
implements
+ what needs to be done when the external trigger comes in.
+ </para>
+
+ <programlisting>public class WaitState implements ExternalActivity {
+
+ public void execute(Execution execution) {
+ execution.waitForSignal();
+ }
+
+ public void signal(Execution execution,
+ String signalName,
+ Map<String, Object> parameters) {
+ }
+}</programlisting>
+
+ <para>When an execution arrives in a wait state, the
<literal>waitForSignal</literal>
+ invocation cause the execution to halt in that node. The signal method is called
+ after an external trigger is received. Again here,
<literal>execution.take(String transitionName)</literal>
+ does not have to be called explicitely as the default outgoing transition is taken
+ in case no other execution propagation methods are invoked.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>Note that ExternalActivity refers to the thread of control that goes
external
+ to the process system. Each time when an external entity (e.g. think a
+ human task or a web service callback) is responsible for the continuation of the
+ process, the process node will behave as a wait state.
+ </para>
+
+ <programlisting>38| ProcessDefinition processDefinition = ProcessFactory.build()
+39| .<emphasis
role="bold">node("a").initial()</emphasis>.behaviour(<emphasis
role="bold">WaitState.class</emphasis>)
+40| .transition().to("b")
+41| .<emphasis
role="bold">node("b")</emphasis>.behaviour(<emphasis
role="bold">WaitState.class</emphasis>)
+42| .transition().to("c")
+43| .<emphasis
role="bold">node("c")</emphasis>.behaviour(<emphasis
role="bold">AutomaticActivity.class</emphasis>)
+44| .transition().to("d")
+45| .<emphasis
role="bold">node("d")</emphasis>.behaviour(<emphasis
role="bold">AutomaticActivity.class</emphasis>)
+46| .transition().to("e")
+47| .<emphasis
role="bold">node("e")</emphasis>.behaviour(<emphasis
role="bold">WaitState.class</emphasis>)
+48| .done();
+49|
+50| Execution execution = processDefinition.startExecution();
+51|
+52| assertEquals("a", execution.getNode().getName());
+53|
+54| execution.signal();
+55|
+56| assertEquals("b", execution.getNode().getName());
+57|
+58| execution.signal();
+59|
+60| assertEquals("e", execution.getNode().getName());</programlisting>
+
+ <para>In the first section (line 38-48), a
<literal>processDefinition</literal> is created with the process
+ factory. The <literal>ProcessFactory</literal> is a fluent language to
build a process definition.
+ All methods return the same process factory. So by concatenating method invocations a
+ full process definition object can be specified. The resulting process looks like
this:
+ </para>
+
+ <figure id="ex01.basic.process">
+ <title>Basic process</title>
+ <mediaobject><imageobject><imagedata align="center"
fileref="images/ex01.basic.process.png"/></imageobject></mediaobject>
+ </figure>
+
+ <para>The second part shows how one execution is started and executed. After
starting
+ a new execution (line 50), the initial node is executed. Since that is a wait state,
the
+ newly created execution is positioned in node <literal>a</literal> (line
52) after the method
+ <literal>processDefinition.startExecution()</literal> returned.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>A first external trigger (line 54) will take the process from node
<literal>a</literal>
+ to node <literal>b</literal>. <literal>b</literal> is again a
wait state.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>The next two nodes <literal>c</literal> and
<literal>d</literal> are automatic
+ activities. So during the <literal>signal</literal> method invocation in
line 58
+ the execution will move forward all the way to node <literal>e</literal>
before it
+ returns.</para>
+
+ <para>A first important consideration to make after this example is that process
execution
+ is done in the thread of the client and this stops when the process execution reaches a
+ wait state. At that point, the PVM method invocation returns.
+ </para>
+
+</chapter>
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+<chapter id="basicprocesspersistence">
+ <title>Basic Process Persistence</title>
+
+ <para>In this section, the same simple process will be executed
+ in a persistent way. Therefor, the PvmService session facade interface
+ will be used instead of invoking methods on the objects directly.
+ </para>
+ <para>The PvmService can be obtained from an EnvironmentFactory.
+ </para>
+
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+<html
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title
xmlns:rf="java:org.jboss.highlight.XhtmlRendererFactory">The Process Virtual
Machine</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="css/jbossorg.css"
type="text/css"/><meta
xmlns:rf="java:org.jboss.highlight.XhtmlRendererFactory"
name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets
V1.72.0"/></head><body><div class="book"
lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><p
id="title"><a href="http://www.jboss.org"
class="site_href"><strong>JBoss.org</strong></a><a
href="http://docs.jboss.org/"
class="doc_href"><strong>Community
Documentation</strong></a></p><div><h1
class="title"><a id="d0e1"/>The Process Virtual
Machine</h1></div><div><h2 class="subtitle">A library
for building executable state machines. It can
+ serve as the foundation for any form of BPM, workflow and orchestration.
+ </h2></div></div><hr/></div><div
class="toc"><dl><dt><span class="chapter"><a
href="#introduction">1.
Introduction</a></span></dt><dd><dl><dt><span
class="section"><a href="#d0e11">1.1. License and
EULA</a></span></dt><dt><span
class="section"><a href="#d0e22">1.2.
Sources</a></span></dt><dt><span
class="section"><a href="#d0e29">1.3. JVM
version</a></span></dt><dt><span
class="section"><a href="#d0e34">1.4. Library
dependencies</a></span></dt><dt><span
class="section"><a href="#d0e42">1.5. What is
it</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a
href="#d0e82">1.6.
Features</a></span></dt><dt><span
class="section"><a href="#d0e105">1.7.
Purpose</a></span></dt></dl></dd><dt><span
class="chapter"><a href="#executionmodes">2. Execution
modes</a></span></dt><dd><dl><dt><span
class="section"><a href="#objectexecutionmode">2.1. Object
execution mode</a></span></dt><dt><span
class="section"><a href="#persistentexecutionmode">2.2.
Persistent execution mode</a></span></dt><dt><spa!
n class="section"><a href="#embeddedexecutionmode">2.3.
Embedded execution
mode</a></span></dt></dl></dd><dt><span
class="chapter"><a href="#architecture">3.
Architecture</a></span></dt><dd><dl><dt><span
class="section"><a href="#apis">3.1.
APIs</a></span></dt><dt><span
class="section"><a href="#d0e419">3.2. Activity
API</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a
href="#d0e433">3.3. Event listener
API</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a
href="#d0e440">3.4. Client
API</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a
href="#d0e447">3.5.
Environment</a></span></dt><dt><span
class="section"><a href="#d0e469">3.6.
Commands</a></span></dt><dt><span
class="section"><a href="#d0e477">3.7.
Services</a></span></dt></dl></dd><dt><span
class="chapter"><a href="#implementingbasicactivities">4.
Implementing basic
activities</a></span></dt><dd><dl><dt><span
class="section"><a href="#activity">4.1.
Activity</a></span></dt><dt><span
class="section"><a href="#activityexample">4.2. Activi!
ty example</a></span></dt><dt><span
class="section"><a href="#external
activity">4.3.
ExternalActivity</a></span></dt><dt><span
class="section"><a href="#externalactivityexample">4.4.
ExternalActivity example</a></span></dt><dt><span
class="section"><a href="#basicprocessexecution">4.5. Basic
process execution</a></span></dt><dt><span
class="section"><a href="#events">4.6.
Events</a></span></dt><dt><span
class="section"><a href="#d0e1133">4.7. Event
propagation</a></span></dt></dl></dd><dt><span
class="chapter"><a href="#processanatomy">5. Process
anatomy</a></span></dt><dt><span
class="chapter"><a href="#advancedgraphexecution">6. Advanced
graph execution</a></span></dt><dd><dl><dt><span
class="section"><a href="#d0e1378">6.1.
Loops</a></span></dt><dt><span
class="section"><a href="#d0e1386">6.2. Sub
processes</a></span></dt><dt><span
class="section"><a href="#implicitproceedbehaviour">6.3.
Implicit proceed behaviour</a></span></dt><dt><span
class="section"><a href="#functionalactivities">6.4.
Functional activities</a></span></dt><dt><span cla!
ss="section"><a href="#executionandthreads">6.5. Execution
and threads</a></span></dt><dt><span
class="section"><a href="#d0e1655">6.6. Process
concurrency</a></span></dt><dt><span
class="section"><a href="#d0e1695">6.7. Exception
handlers</a></span></dt><dt><span
class="section"><a href="#d0e1725">6.8. Process
modifications</a></span></dt><dt><span
class="section"><a href="#d0e1731">6.9. Locking and execution
state</a></span></dt></dl></dd><dt><span
class="chapter"><a href="#variables">7.
Variables</a></span></dt><dt><span
class="chapter"><a href="#timers">8.
Timers</a></span></dt><dt><span
class="chapter"><a href="#asynchronouscontinuations">9.
Asynchronous continuations</a></span></dt><dt><span
class="chapter"><a href="#softwarelogging">10. Software
logging</a></span></dt><dd><dl><dt><span
class="section"><a href="#d0e1793">10.1.
Configuration</a></span></dt><dt><span
class="section"><a href="#d0e1812">10.2.
Categories</a></span></dt><dt><span
class="section"><a href="#d!
0e1825">10.3. JDK logging</a></span></dt><dt><span
class="section"><a
href="#d0e1855">10.4. Debugging
persistence</a></span></dt></dl></dd></dl></div><div
class="chapter" lang="en"><div
class="titlepage"><div><div><h2
class="title"><a
id="introduction"/>Chapter 1. Introduction</h2></div></div></div><div
class="toc"><dl><dt><span class="section"><a
href="#d0e11">1.1. License and
EULA</a></span></dt><dt><span
class="section"><a href="#d0e22">1.2.
Sources</a></span></dt><dt><span
class="section"><a href="#d0e29">1.3. JVM
version</a></span></dt><dt><span
class="section"><a href="#d0e34">1.4. Library
dependencies</a></span></dt><dt><span
class="section"><a href="#d0e42">1.5. What is
it</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a
href="#d0e82">1.6.
Features</a></span></dt><dt><span
class="section"><a href="#d0e105">1.7.
Purpose</a></span></dt></dl></div><div
class="section" lang="en"><div
class="titlepage"><div><div><h2
class="title"><a id="d0e11"/>1.1. License and
EULA</h2></div></div></div><p>The Process Virtual Machine
component is distributed!
under the terms of the
+ GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) and the JBoss End User License Agreement
(EULA).
+ See <a
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
href="../../../lgpl.html">the full LGPL license text</a> and <a
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
href="../../../JBossORG-EULA.txt">the
+ full End User License Agreement</a>.
+ </p></div><div class="section"
lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2
class="title"><a
id="d0e22"/>1.2. Sources</h2></div></div></div><p>The
source code for this component can be found in the jBPM SVN repository:
+ </p><a
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
href="https://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/jbpm/jbpm4/pvm/">https...
class="section" lang="en"><div
class="titlepage"><div><div><h2
class="title"><a id="d0e29"/>1.3. JVM
version</h2></div></div></div><p>jbpm-pvm.jar requires a JVM
version 5 or higher.
+ </p></div><div class="section"
lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2
class="title"><a id="d0e34"/>1.4. Library
dependencies</h2></div></div></div><p>For building and
executing processes the jbpm-pvm.jar does not have any other
+ dependencies then on the JVM. If you're using DB persistence, then there is a
dependency
+ on hibernate and it's dependencies. More information about the optional
depedencies can
+ be found in the <a
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
href="../../lib/optional-dependencies.html">lib directory</a>.
+ </p></div><div class="section"
lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2
class="title"><a id="d0e42"/>1.5. What is
it</h2></div></div></div><p>In essence, the Process Virtual
Machine is a framework specifying executable
+ graphs. A process definition represents an execution flow and has a structure that
+ be represented graphically as a diagram.
+ </p><div class="figure"><a
id="example.process.graph"/><div
class="figure-contents"><div class="mediaobject"
align="center"><img src="images/process.loan.png"
align="middle" alt="Example process
definition"/></div></div><p
class="title"><b>Figure 1.1. Example process
definition</b></p></div><br
class="figure-break"/><p>Typically, process definitions are static. A
process definition is composed of
+ nodes and transitions. The runtime behaviour of a node is encapsulated in a so
called
+ Activity and it's decoupled from the process graph structure.
+ </p><div class="figure"><a
id="class.diagram.process.definition"/><div
class="figure-contents"><div class="mediaobject"
align="center"><img
src="images/class.diagram.process.definition.png" align="middle"
alt="Process structure class diagram"/></div></div><p
class="title"><b>Figure 1.2. Process structure class
diagram</b></p></div><br
class="figure-break"/><p>The Process Virtual
+ Machine doesn't contain any such activity implementations. It only provides the
+ execution environment and an activity API to write <code
class="literal">Activity</code>
+ implementations as Java components. Activities can also be wait states. This means
+ that the node control flow goes outside the process system. For example a human task
+ or invoking an service asynchronously.
+ </p><p>Many executions can be started for one process definition. An
execution is a pointer
+ that keeps track of the current node.
+ </p><div class="figure"><a
id="example.execution"/><div class="figure-contents"><div
class="mediaobject" align="center"><img
src="images/loan.execution.png" align="middle" alt="Example
execution"/></div></div><p
class="title"><b>Figure 1.3. Example
execution</b></p></div><br
class="figure-break"/><p>To represent concurrent paths of execution,
there is
+ a hierarchical parent-child relation between so that one process instance can cope
with concurrent
+ paths of execution.
+ </p><div class="figure"><a
id="class.diagram.process.execution"/><div
class="figure-contents"><div class="mediaobject"
align="center"><img
src="images/class.diagram.process.execution.png" align="middle"
alt="Execution class diagram"/></div></div><p
class="title"><b>Figure 1.4. Execution class
diagram</b></p></div><br
class="figure-break"/></div><div class="section"
lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2
class="title"><a
id="d0e82"/>1.6. Features</h2></div></div></div><p>The
key features of this library are
+ </p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul><li>Create
executable processes that are based on a diagram structure</li><li>Runtime
behaviour of the nodes can be provided as Activity
implementations</li><li>Activities can be wait
states</li><li>There are no constraints on the process graph
structure</li><li>Processes diagrams can be based on composition (aka block
structured)</li><li>Processes diagrams can be a mix of graph based and
composition</li><li>During wait states, the runtime state of a process
execution can be persisted</li><li>Persistence is
optional</li></ul></div><p>
+ </p></div><div class="section"
lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2
class="title"><a
id="d0e105"/>1.7. Purpose</h2></div></div></div><p>The
Process Virtual Machine is designed in such a way that it's easy to build
+ workflow, BPM, orchestration and other graph based execution langauges on top
+ of it. Examples of languages that have been built on top of this library:
+ </p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul><li>jPDL:
Workflow language that combines powerful human task capabilities with easy binding to
Java.</li><li>BPEL: Web-Service orchestration (to be exact for the purists:
BPEL is a WSDL service orchestration language)</li><li>Pageflow: To describe
navigation handling in a web application, pages can be seen as nodes and the nagivation
between the pages as transitions.</li><li>XPDL: A graph based process language
standardized by the Workflow Management Coalition
(WfMC)</li></ul></div><p>Even while the nature of these languages
is already very diverse, these are
+ all examples of general purpose workflow languages. The real power of the
+ Process Virtual Machine is that it's very easy to build Domain Specific Languages
(DSL)
+ with it. For instance, it's very easy to build a very simple (and dedicated)
workflow
+ language to specify approvals related to documents in a document management system.
+ </p><p>BPM as a discipline refers to the management level effort to
optimise efficiency
+ of an organisation by analysing and optimising the procedures of how people and
systems
+ work together. In designing the Process Virtual Machine and the jPDL language
+ in particular, we have spend great care on facilitating the link between BPM analysis
+ notations and executable process languages. Here are the most known modeling
notations:
+ </p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul><li>BPMN: OMG
latest notation for modeling business processes.
+ This is a modeling notation that is targetted explicitely to be bound
+ to executable processes.
+ </li><li>UML activity diagrams: OMG notation for modeling business
+ processes. Mostly used in business context.</li><li>UML state
diagrams: OMG modeling notation for defining technical
+ state machines. More used in a technical context.</li><li>EPC: Event
driven process chains. Rich notation for modeling
+ business processes driven by SAP and IDS
Scheer.</li></ul></div></div></div><div
class="chapter" lang="en"><div
class="titlepage"><div><div><h2
class="title"><a id="executionmodes"/>Chapter 2. Execution
modes</h2></div></div></div><div
class="toc"><dl><dt><span class="section"><a
href="#objectexecutionmode">2.1. Object execution
mode</a></span></dt><dt><span
class="section"><a href="#persistentexecutionmode">2.2.
Persistent execution mode</a></span></dt><dt><span
class="section"><a href="#embeddedexecutionmode">2.3.
Embedded execution
mode</a></span></dt></dl></div><p>There are basically
three process execution modes: object, persistent
+ and embedded. For the persistent and embedded execution modes, the process
+ execution has to participate in a transaction. In that case, the process
+ execution has to take place inside of an Environment. The environment will be
+ used to bind process execution updates to a transaction in the application
+ transaction. The environment can be used to bind to e.g. a JDBC connection,
+ JTA, BMT, Spring transactions and so on.
+ </p><div class="section" lang="en"><div
class="titlepage"><div><div><h2
class="title"><a id="objectexecutionmode"/>2.1. Object
execution mode</h2></div></div></div><p>Object execution
mode is the simplest form of working with the Process
+ Virtual Machine. This means working with the process definition and execution
+ objects directly through the client API. Let's show this by an example. We
+ start by creating a <code
class="literal">ClientProcessDefinition</code> that looks like this:
+ </p><p>Object execution mode is the simplest form of working with the
Process
+ Virtual Machine. This means working with the process definition and execution
+ objects directly through the client API. Let's show this by an example. We
+ start by creating a <code
class="literal">ClientProcessDefinition</code> that looks like this:
+ </p><div class="figure"><a
id="loan.process"/><div class="figure-contents"><div
class="mediaobject" align="center"><img
src="images/process.loan.png" align="middle" alt="The loan
process"/></div></div><p
class="title"><b>Figure 2.1. The loan
process</b></p></div><br class="figure-break"/><pre
class="programlisting">ClientProcessDefinition processDefinition =
ProcessFactory.build("loan")
+ .node("submit loan request").initial().behaviour(AutomaticActivity.class)
+ .transition().to("evaluate")
+ .node("evaluate").behaviour(WaitState.class)
+ .transition("approve").to("wire money")
+ .transition("reject").to("end")
+ .node("wire money").behaviour(AutomaticActivity.class)
+ .transition().to("archive")
+ .node("archive").behaviour(WaitState.class)
+ .transition().to("end")
+ .node("end").behaviour(WaitState.class)
+.done();</pre><p>The <code
class="literal">ProcessFactory</code> is a helper class that provides
convenience
+ for building an object graph that represents a process definition.
+ <code class="literal">AutomaticActivity</code> is a
pass-through activity without anything
+ happening and <code class="literal">WaitState</code> will
wait until an external signal is given. Both
+ activity implementations will be covered in more depth later.
+ </p><p>The <code
class="literal">processDefinition</code> object serves as a factory for
process
+ instance objects. A process instance represents one execution of the process
definition.
+ More precise, the process instance is the main path of execution.
+ </p><pre class="programlisting">ClientExecution execution =
processDefinition.startProcessInstance();</pre><p>A process instance
+ itself is also an <code class="literal">Execution</code>.
Potentially, an execution can have
+ child executions to represent concurrent paths of execution.
+ </p><p>The <code class="literal">execution</code>
can be seen as a state machine that operates as
+ described in the process definition. Starting a process
+ instance means that the initial node of the process definition is executed.
+ Since this is an automatic activity, the execution will proceed to the
+ <code class="literal">evaluate</code> node. The <code
class="literal">evaluate</code> node is a wait state.
+ When the execution arrived at the evaluate node, the method <code
class="literal">startProcessInstance</code>
+ will return and waits until an external signal is provided with the <code
class="literal">signal</code>
+ method. So after the <code
class="literal">startProcessInstance</code> we can verify if the
+ execution is positioned in the evaluate node.
+ </p><pre
class="programlisting">assertEquals("evaluate",
execution.getNodeName());</pre><p>To make the process execute further, we
provide an external trigger with the
+ <code class="literal">signal</code> method. The result of
the evaluation will be given as the
+ signalName parameter like this:
+ </p><pre
class="programlisting">execution.signal("approve");</pre><p>The
<code class="literal">WaitState</code> activity implementation will
take the transition
+ that corresponds to the given signalName. So the execution will first execute
+ the automatic activity <code class="literal">wire
money</code> and then return after entering
+ the next wait state <code class="literal">archive</code>.
+ </p><pre
class="programlisting">assertEquals("archive",
execution.getNodeName());</pre><p>When the execution is waiting in the archive
node, the default signal will
+ make it take the first unnamed transition.
+ </p><pre class="programlisting">execution.signal();
+assertEquals("end", execution.getNodeName());</pre><p>The process
has executed in the thread of the client. The
+ <code class="literal">startProcessInstance</code> method only
returned when the <code class="literal">evaluate</code>
+ node was reached. In other words, the <code
class="literal">ClientProcessDefinition.startProcessInstance</code>
+ and <code class="literal">ClientExecution.signal</code>
methods are blocking until the next
+ wait state is reached.
+ </p></div><div class="section"
lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2
class="title"><a
id="persistentexecutionmode"/>2.2. Persistent execution
mode</h2></div></div></div><p>The Process Virtual Machine
also contains the hibernate mappings to store the
+ process definitions and executions in any database. A special session facade
called
+ <code class="literal">ExecutionService</code> is provided for
working with process executions
+ in such a persistent environment.
+ </p><p>Two configuration files should be available on the classpath: an
environment
+ configuration file and a <code
class="literal">hibernate.properties</code> file. A basic
+ configuration for persistent execution mode in a standard Java environment looks
+ like this:
+ </p><code class="literal"><span
class="bold"><strong>environment.cfg.xml</strong></span>:</code><pre
class="programlisting"><contexts
xmlns="http://jbpm.org/pvm/1.0/wire">
+
+ <environment-factory>
+
+ <deployer-manager>
+ <language name="api">
+ <check-version />
+ <create-id />
+ <save-process />
+ </language>
+ </deployer-manager>
+
+ <process-service />
+ <execution-service />
+ <management-service />
+
+ <command-service>
+ <retry-interceptor />
+ <environment-interceptor />
+ <standard-transaction-interceptor />
+ </command-service>
+
+ <hibernate-configuration>
+ <properties resource="hibernate.properties" />
+ <mappings resource="org/jbpm/pvm/pvm.hibernate.mappings.xml"
/>
+ <cache-configuration resource="org/jbpm/pvm/pvm.cache.xml"
+ usage="nonstrict-read-write" />
+ </hibernate-configuration>
+
+ <hibernate-session-factory />
+
+ <id-generator />
+ <variable-types resource="org/jbpm/pvm/pvm.types.xml" />
+ <job-executor auto-start="false" />
+
+ </environment-factory>
+
+ <environment>
+ <hibernate-session />
+ <transaction />
+ <pvm-db-session />
+ <job-db-session />
+ <message-session />
+ </environment>
+
+</contexts></pre><p>And next to it a hibernate.properties like
this</p><code
class="literal">hibernate.properties:</code><pre
class="programlisting">hibernate.dialect
org.hibernate.dialect.HSQLDialect
+hibernate.connection.driver_class org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver
+hibernate.connection.url jdbc:hsqldb:mem:.
+hibernate.connection.username sa
+hibernate.connection.password
+hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto create-drop
+hibernate.cache.use_second_level_cache true
+hibernate.cache.provider_class org.hibernate.cache.HashtableCacheProvider
+# hibernate.show_sql true
+hibernate.format_sql true
+hibernate.use_sql_comments true</pre><p>Then you can obtain the
services from the environment factory like this:
+ </p><pre class="programlisting">EnvironmentFactory
environmentFactory = new PvmEnvironmentFactory("environment.cfg.xml");
+
+ProcessService processService = environmentFactory.get(ProcessService.class);
+ExecutionService executionService = environmentFactory.get(ExecutionService.class);
+ManagementService managementService =
environmentFactory.get(ManagementService.class);</pre><p>The responsibility of
the <code class="literal">ProcessService</code> is to manage
+ the repository of process definitions. Before we can start a process execution,
+ the process definition needs to be deployed into the process repository.
+ Process definitions can be supplied in various formats and process definition
+ languages. A deployment collects process definition information from various
+ sources like a ZIP file, an XML file or a process definition object.
+ The method <code class="literal">ProcessService.deploy</code>
will take a deployment
+ through all the deployers that are configured in the configuration file.
+ </p><p>In this example, we'll supply a process definition
programmatically
+ for deployment.</p><pre
class="programlisting">ClientProcessDefinition processDefinition =
ProcessFactory.build("loan")
+ .node("submit loan request").initial().behaviour(AutomaticActivity.class)
+ .transition().to("evaluate")
+ .node("evaluate").behaviour(WaitState.class)
+ .transition("approve").to("wire money")
+ .transition("reject").to("end")
+ .node("wire money").behaviour(AutomaticActivity.class)
+ .transition().to("archive")
+ .node("archive").behaviour(WaitState.class)
+ .transition().to("end")
+ .node("end").behaviour(WaitState.class)
+.done();
+
+Deployment deployment = new Deployment(processDefinition);
+processService.deploy(deployment);</pre><p>Now, a version of that process
definition is stored in the database.
+ The <code class="literal">check-version</code> deployer will
have assigned version 1
+ to the stored process definition. The <code
class="literal">create-id</code> deployer
+ will have distilled id <code class="literal">loan:1</code> from
the process name and the
+ assigned version.
+ </p><p>Deploying that process again will lead to a new process definition
+ version being created in the database. But an incremented version number will
+ be assigned. For the purpose of versioning, process definitions are considered
+ equal if they have the same name.</p><p>It is recommended that a user
provided key reference is supplied for
+ all process executions. Starting a new process execution goes like this:
+ </p><pre class="programlisting">Execution execution =
executionService.startExecution("loan:1",
"request7836");</pre><p>The return value is an execution interface,
which prevents navigation of relations.
+ That is because outside of the service methods, the transaction and hibernate session
+ is not guaranteed to still be open. In fact, the default configuration as given
+ above will only keep the transaction and session open for the duration of the
+ service method. So navigating the relations outside of the service methods might
result
+ into a hibernate <code
class="literal">LazyInitializationException</code>. But the
+ current node name can still be verified:
+ </p><pre
class="programlisting">assertEquals("evaluate",
execution.getNodeName());</pre><p>Also very important is the generated id that
can be obtained. The default
+ <code class="literal">id-generator</code> will use the process
definition id and the
+ given key to make a unique id for the process execution like this:</p><pre
class="programlisting">assertEquals("loan:1/request7836",
execution.getId());</pre><p>That id must be when providing the subsequent
external triggers to the
+ process execution like this:
+ </p><pre
class="programlisting">executionService.signalExecution("loan:1/request7836",
"approve");</pre><p>More information about service interfaces to run
in persistent
+ mode can be found in package
+ <a
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
href="../../api/org/jbpm/pvm/package-summary.html"><code
class="literal">org.jbpm.pvm</code> of the
+ api docs</a>.
+ </p></div><div class="section"
lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2
class="title"><a id="embeddedexecutionmode"/>2.3. Embedded
execution mode</h2></div></div></div><p>Embedded execution
mode means that the state of a process is stored
+ as a string column inside a user domain object like e.g. a loan.
+ </p><pre class="programlisting">public class Loan {
+
+ <span class="bold"><strong>/** the loan process definition as a
static resource */
+ private static final ClientProcessDefinition processDefinition = createLoanProcess();
+
+ private static ClientProcessDefinition createLoanProcess() {
+ ClientProcessDefinition processDefinition = ProcessFactory.build("loan")
+ .node("submit loan
request").initial().behaviour(AutomaticActivity.class)
+ .transition().to("evaluate")
+ .node("evaluate").behaviour(WaitState.class)
+ .transition("approve").to("wire money")
+ .transition("reject").to("end")
+ .node("wire money").behaviour(AutomaticActivity.class)
+ .transition().to("archive")
+ .node("archive").behaviour(WaitState.class)
+ .transition().to("end")
+ .node("end").behaviour(WaitState.class)
+ .done();
+
+ return processDefinition;
+ }
+
+ /** exposes the process definition to the execution hibernate type */
+ private static ClientProcessDefinition getProcessDefinition() {
+ return processDefinition;
+ }
+ </strong></span>
+
+ long dbid;
+ String customer;
+ double amount;
+ <span class="bold"><strong>ClientExecution
execution;</strong></span>
+
+ /** constructor for persistence */
+ protected Loan() {
+ }
+
+ public Loan(String customer, double amount) {
+ this.customer = customer;
+ this.amount = amount;
+ <span class="bold"><strong>this.execution =
processDefinition.startProcessInstance();</strong></span>
+ }
+
+ public void approve() {
+ <span
class="bold"><strong>execution.signal("approve");</strong></span>
+ }
+
+ public void reject() {
+ <span
class="bold"><strong>execution.signal("reject");</strong></span>
+ }
+
+ public void archiveComplete() {
+ <span
class="bold"><strong>execution.signal();</strong></span>
+ }
+
+ public String getState() {
+ return <span
class="bold"><strong>execution.getNodeName()</strong></span>;
+ }
+
+ ...getters...
+}</pre><p>If you ignore the bold parts for a second, you can see that this is
a
+ POJO without anything fancy. It's just a bean that can be stored with hibernate.
+ The bold part indicate that implementation part of the class that is related
+ to process and execution. Not that nothing of the process definition or
+ execution is exposed to the user of the Loan class.
+ </p><p>Each <code class="literal">Loan</code>
object corresponds to a <code class="literal">loan</code>
+ process instance. Some methods of the <code
class="literal">Loan</code> class correspond
+ to the external triggers that need to be given during the lifecycle of a
+ <code class="literal">Loan</code> object.
+ </p><p>Next we'll show how to use this class. To get started we need
a</p><span class="bold"><strong><code
class="literal">hibernate.cfg.xml:</code></strong></span><pre
class="programlisting"><?xml version="1.0"
encoding="utf-8"?>
+
+<!DOCTYPE hibernate-configuration PUBLIC
+ "-//Hibernate/Hibernate Configuration DTD 3.0//EN"
+
"http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/hibernate-configuration-3.0.dtd">
+
+<hibernate-configuration>
+ <session-factory>
+
+ <property
name="hibernate.dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.HSQLDialect</property>
+ <property
name="hibernate.connection.driver_class">org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver</property>
+ <property
name="hibernate.connection.url">jdbc:hsqldb:mem:.</property>
+ <property
name="hibernate.connection.username">sa</property>
+ <property
name="hibernate.connection.password"></property>
+ <property
name="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto">create</property>
+ <property
name="hibernate.show_sql">true"</property>
+ <property
name="hibernate.format_sql">true"</property>
+ <property
name="hibernate.use_sql_comments">true"</property>
+
+ <mapping resource="Loan.hbm.xml"/>
+
+ </session-factory>
+</hibernate-configuration></pre><p>And a</p><span
class="bold"><strong><code
class="literal">Loan.hbm.xml:</code></strong></span><pre
class="programlisting"><?xml version="1.0"?<
+
+<!DOCTYPE hibernate-mapping PUBLIC
+ "-//Hibernate/Hibernate Mapping DTD 3.0//EN"
+ "http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/hibernate-mapping-3.0.dtd"<
+
+<hibernate-mapping package="org.jbpm.pvm.api.db.embedded"
default-access="field"<
+
+ <typedef name="execution"
class="org.jbpm.pvm.internal.hibernate.ExecutionType" /<
+
+ <class name="Loan" table="LOAN"<
+
+ <id name="dbid"<
+ <generator class="sequence"/<
+ </id<
+
+ <property name="execution" type="execution" /<
+ <property name="customer" /<
+ <property name="amount" /<
+
+ </class<
+
+</hibernate-mapping<</pre><p>Then you can use the Loan class
like this in a test</p><pre class="programlisting">Configuration
configuration = new Configuration();
+configuration.configure();
+SessionFactory sessionFactory = configuration.buildSessionFactory();
+
+// start a session/transaction
+Session session = sessionFactory.openSession();
+Transaction transaction = session.beginTransaction();
+
+Loan loan = new Loan("john doe", 234.0);
+session.save(loan);
+assertEquals("evaluate", loan.getState());
+
+// start a new session/transaction
+transaction.commit();
+session.close();
+session = sessionFactory.openSession();
+transaction = session.beginTransaction();
+
+loan = (Loan) session.get(Loan.class, loan.getDbid());
+assertEquals("evaluate", loan.getState());
+loan.approve();
+assertEquals("archive", loan.getState());
+
+// start a new session/transaction
+transaction.commit();
+session.close();</pre><p>After executing this code snippet, this is the loan
record in the DB:</p><div class="figure"><a
id="loan.db"/><div class="figure-contents"><div
class="mediaobject" align="center"><img
src="images/loan.db.png" align="middle" alt="The loan record in
the DB"/></div></div><p
class="title"><b>Figure 2.2. The loan record in the
DB</b></p></div><br
class="figure-break"/></div></div><div
class="chapter" lang="en"><div
class="titlepage"><div><div><h2
class="title"><a
id="architecture"/>Chapter 3. Architecture</h2></div></div></div><div
class="toc"><dl><dt><span class="section"><a
href="#apis">3.1. APIs</a></span></dt><dt><span
class="section"><a href="#d0e419">3.2. Activity
API</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a
href="#d0e433">3.3. Event listener
API</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a
href="#d0e440">3.4. Client
API</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a
href="#d0e447">3.5.
Environment</a></span></dt><dt><span
class="section"><a hre!
f="#d0e469">3.6.
Commands</a></span></dt><dt><span
class="section"><a href="#d0e477">3.7.
Services</a></span></dt></dl></div><div
class="section" lang="en"><div
class="titlepage"><div><div><h2
class="title"><a
id="apis"/>3.1. APIs</h2></div></div></div><p>The
Process Virtual Machine has 4 integrated API's that together
+ offer a complete coverage of working with processes in the different execution modes.
+ Each of the APIs has a specific purpose that fits within the following overall
+ architecture.
+ </p><div class="figure"><a id="apis"/><div
class="figure-contents"><div class="mediaobject"
align="center"><img src="images/apis.png"
align="middle" alt="The 4 API's of the Process Virtual
Machine"/></div></div><p
class="title"><b>Figure 3.1. The 4 API's of the Process Virtual
Machine</b></p></div><br
class="figure-break"/><p>The services interfaces should be used from
application code that wants to interact
+ with the Process Virtual Machine which runs in transactional persistent mode, backed
by a
+ database. This is the most typical way how users interact with the PVM as a workflow
engine.
+ </p><p>To execute processes without persistence, the client API can be
used to work with process
+ and execution objects directly. The client API expose the methods of the core model
objects.
+ </p><p>The activity API is used to implement the runtime behaviour of
activities. So a activity
+ type is in fact a component with at the core an implementation of the <code
class="literal">Activity</code>
+ interface. Activity implementations can control the flow of execution.
+ </p><p>The event listener API serves to write pieces of Java code that
should be executed upon
+ process events. It's very similar to the activity API with that exception that
event listeners
+ are not able to control the flow of execution.
+ </p></div><div class="section"
lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2
class="title"><a id="d0e419"/>3.2. Activity
API</h2></div></div></div><p>The activity API allows to
implement the runtime activity behaviour in Java.
+ </p><pre class="programlisting">public interface Activity
extends Serializable {
+ void execute(ActivityExecution execution) throws Exception;
+}</pre><p>An activity is the behaviour of the node to which it is
associated.
+ The provided execution is the execution that arrives in the node.
+ The interface <code class="literal">ActivityExecution</code>
exposes special
+ methods to control the execution flow.
+ </p><pre class="programlisting">public interface
ActivityExecution extends OpenExecution {
+
+ void waitForSignal();
+ void take(String transitionName);
+ void execute(String nodeName);
+
+ ...
+
+}</pre></div><div class="section" lang="en"><div
class="titlepage"><div><div><h2
class="title"><a id="d0e433"/>3.3. Event listener
API</h2></div></div></div><p>The event listener API allows
for listeners to be developed in Java code
+ and that are invoked on specific process events like entering a node or leaving
+ a node. It is very similar to the activity API, but the difference is
+ that the propagation of the execution flow cannot be controlled. E.g. when an
execution
+ is taking a transition, a listener to that event can be notified, but since the
+ transition is already being taking, the execution flow cannot be changed
+ by the event listeners.
+ </p><pre class="programlisting">public interface EventListener
extends Serializable {
+
+ void notify(EventListenerExecution execution) throws Exception;
+
+}</pre></div><div class="section" lang="en"><div
class="titlepage"><div><div><h2
class="title"><a id="d0e440"/>3.4. Client
API</h2></div></div></div><p>The client API was already
introduced above in the object execution mode
+ and embedded execution mode. It's an interface that exposes the methods for
+ managing executions on the plain process definition and execution objects directly.
+ </p><p>At a minimal, the client API and the activity API are needed to
create
+ some a process definition with activities and execute it.
+ </p></div><div class="section"
lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2
class="title"><a
id="d0e447"/>3.5. Environment</h2></div></div></div><p>In
the persistent execution mode, the first purpose of the environment is
+ to enable processes to be executed in different transactional environments like
+ standard Java, enterprise Java, SEAM and Spring.
+ </p><p>The PVM code itself will only use transactional resources through
self-defined
+ interfaces. For example, the PVM itself has interfaces for some methods on the
hibernate
+ session, a async messaging session and a timer session.
+ </p><p>The environment allows to configure the actual implementations,
lazy
+ initialization of the services on a request-basis and caching the service
+ objects for the duration of the transaction.
+ </p><p>An environment factory is static and one environment factory can
serve
+ all the threads in an application.
+ </p><pre class="programlisting">EnvironmentFactory
environmentFactory = new
PvmEnvironmentFactory("environment.cfg.xml");</pre><p>Environment
blocks can surround persistent process operations
+ like this:
+ </p><pre class="programlisting">Environment environment =
environmentFactory.openEnvironment();
+try {
+
+ ... inside the environment block...
+
+} finally {
+ environment.close();
+}</pre><p>The PVM itself will fetch all it's transactional resources and
configurations
+ from the environment. It's recommended that <code
class="literal">Activity</code> implementations
+ do the same.
+ </p></div><div class="section"
lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2
class="title"><a
id="d0e469"/>3.6. Commands</h2></div></div></div><p>Commands
encapsulate operations that are to be executed within an environment
+ block. The main purpose for commands is to capture the logic of
+ </p><pre class="programlisting">public interface
Command<T> extends Serializable {
+
+ T execute(Environment environment) throws Exception;
+
+}</pre><p/></div><div class="section"
lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2
class="title"><a
id="d0e477"/>3.7. Services</h2></div></div></div><p>There
are three services: <code class="literal">ProcessService</code>,
+ <code class="literal">ExecutionService</code> and <code
class="literal">ManagementService</code>.
+ In general, services are session facades that expose methods for persistent
+ usage of the PVM. The next fragments show the essential methods as example
+ to illustrate those services.
+ </p><p>The <code
class="literal">ProcessService</code> manages the repository of
+ process definitions.
+ </p><pre class="programlisting">public interface ProcessService
{
+
+ ProcessDefinition deploy(Deployment deployment);
+
+ ProcessDefinition findLatestProcessDefinition(String processDefinitionName);
+
+ ...
+
+}</pre><p>The <code
class="literal">ExecutionService</code> manages the runtime
+ executions.</p><pre class="programlisting">public interface
ExecutionService {
+
+ Execution startExecution(String processDefinitionId, String executionKey);
+
+ Execution signalExecution(String executionId, String signalName);
+
+ ...
+
+}</pre><p>The <code
class="literal">ManagementService</code> groups all management
operations
+ that are needed to keep the system up and running.
+ </p><pre class="programlisting">public interface
ManagementService {
+
+ List<Job> getJobsWithException(int firstResult, int maxResults);
+
+ void executeJob(String jobId);
+
+ ...
+
+}</pre><p>The implementation of all these methods is encapsulated in
+ <code class="literal">Command</code>s. And the three services
all delegate the
+ execution of the commands to a <code
class="literal">CommandService</code>:
+ </p><pre class="programlisting">public interface CommandService
{
+
+ <T> T execute(Command<T> command);
+
+}</pre><p>The <code
class="literal">CommandService</code> is configured in the
+ environment. A chain of CommandServices can act as interceptors
+ around a command. This is the core mechanism on how persistence and
+ transactional support can be offered in a variety of environments.
+ </p><p>From the default configuration which is included in full above,
+ here is the section that configures the services
+ </p><pre class="programlisting"><contexts
xmlns="http://jbpm.org/pvm/1.0/wire">
+
+ <environment-factory>
+
+ <process-service />
+ <execution-service />
+ <management-service />
+
+ <command-service>
+ <retry-interceptor />
+ <environment-interceptor />
+ <standard-transaction-interceptor />
+ </command-service>
+
+ ...
+ </pre><p>The three services <code
class="literal">process-service</code>, <code
class="literal">execution-service</code>
+ and <code class="literal">management-service</code> will look
up the configured
+ <code class="literal">command-service</code> by type. The
<code class="literal">command-service</code>
+ tag corresponds to the default command service that essentially does nothing else
+ then just execute the command providing it the current environment.
+ </p><p>The configured <code
class="literal">command-service</code> results into the following
+ a chain of three interceptors followed by the default command executor.
+ </p><div class="figure"><a
id="interceptors"/><div class="figure-contents"><div
class="mediaobject" align="center"><img
src="images/interceptors.png" align="middle" alt="The
CommandService interceptors"/></div></div><p
class="title"><b>Figure 3.2. The CommandService
interceptors</b></p></div><br
class="figure-break"/><p>The retry interceptor is the first in the
chain and that one that will be exposed as the
+ <code class="literal">CommandService.class</code> from the
environment. So the retry interceptor
+ will be given to the respective services <code
class="literal">process-service</code>, <code
class="literal">execution-service</code>
+ and <code class="literal">management-service</code>.
+ </p><p>The <code
class="literal">retry-interceptor</code> will catch hibernate
StaleObjectExceptions
+ (indicating optimistic locking failures) and retry to execute the command.
+ </p><p>The <code
class="literal">environment-interceptor</code> will put an environment
block
+ around the execution of the command.
+ </p><p>The <code
class="literal">standard-transaction-interceptor</code> will initialize
a
+ <code class="literal">StandardTransaction</code>. The
hibernate session/transaction will be
+ enlisted as a resource with this standard transaction.
+ </p><p>Different configurations of this interceptor stack will also
enable to
+ </p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul><li>delegate
execution to a local ejb command service so that an container
+ managed transaction is started.
+ </li><li>delegate to a remote ejb command service so that the command
actually
+ gets executed on a different JVM.
+ </li><li>package the command as an asynchronous message so that the
command gets
+ executed asynchronously in a different transaction.
+ </li></ul></div></div></div><div
class="chapter" lang="en"><div
class="titlepage"><div><div><h2
class="title"><a
id="implementingbasicactivities"/>Chapter 4. Implementing basic
activities</h2></div></div></div><div
class="toc"><dl><dt><span class="section"><a
href="#activity">4.1.
Activity</a></span></dt><dt><span
class="section"><a href="#activityexample">4.2. Activity
example</a></span></dt><dt><span
class="section"><a href="#externalactivity">4.3.
ExternalActivity</a></span></dt><dt><span
class="section"><a href="#externalactivityexample">4.4.
ExternalActivity example</a></span></dt><dt><span
class="section"><a href="#basicprocessexecution">4.5. Basic
process execution</a></span></dt><dt><span
class="section"><a href="#events">4.6.
Events</a></span></dt><dt><span
class="section"><a href="#d0e1133">4.7. Event
propagation</a></span></dt></dl></div><p>This chapter
explains the basics of process definitions, the features offered by
+ the Process Virtual Machine and how activity implementations can be build. At the
same
+ time the client API is shown to execute processes with those activity implementations.
+ </p><div class="section" lang="en"><div
class="titlepage"><div><div><h2
class="title"><a
id="activity"/>4.1. Activity</h2></div></div></div><p>The
PVM library doesn't have a fixed set of process constructs.
+ Instead, runtime behaviour of a node is delegated to an <code
class="literal">Activity</code>.
+ In other words, <code class="literal">Activity</code> is an
interface to implement the runtime
+ behaviour of process constructs in plain Java.
+ </p><pre class="programlisting">public <span
class="bold"><strong>interface Activity</strong></span>
extends Serializable {
+
+ void <span
class="bold"><strong>execute</strong></span>(ActivityExecution
execution) throws Exception;
+
+}</pre><p>When an activity is used as the node behaviour, it is in full
control of the further
+ propagation of the execution. In other words, a node behaviour can decide what the
execution
+ should do next. For example, it can take a transition with
+ <code class="literal">execution.take(Transition)</code> or go
into a wait state with
+ <code class="literal">execution.waitForSignal()</code>. In
case the node behaviour does not invoke
+ any of the above execution propagation methods, the execution will
+ <a href="#implicitproceedbehaviour" title="6.3. Implicit proceed
behaviour">proceed in a default way</a>.
+ </p></div><div class="section"
lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2
class="title"><a id="activityexample"/>4.2. Activity
example</h2></div></div></div><p>We'll start with a very
original hello world example. A Display
+ activity will print a message to the console:
+ </p><pre class="programlisting">public <span
class="bold"><strong>class Display</strong></span>
implements <span
class="bold"><strong>Activity</strong></span> {
+
+ String message;
+
+ public Display(String message) {
+ this.message = message;
+ }
+
+ public void execute(ActivityExecution execution) {
+ <span
class="bold"><strong>System.out.println(message);</strong></span>
+ }
+}</pre><p>Let' build our first process definition with this
activity:</p><div class="figure"><a
id="activity.example"/><div class="figure-contents"><div
class="mediaobject" align="center"><img
src="images/process.ab.png" align="middle" alt="Display example
process"/></div></div><p
class="title"><b>Figure 4.1. Display example
process</b></p></div><br class="figure-break"/><pre
class="programlisting">ClientProcessDefinition processDefinition =
ProcessFactory.build()
+ .<span
class="bold"><strong>node("a").initial()</strong></span>.behaviour(<span
class="bold"><strong>new
Display("hello")</strong></span>)
+ .transition().to("b")
+ .<span
class="bold"><strong>node("b")</strong></span>.behaviour(<span
class="bold"><strong>new
Display("world")</strong></span>)
+.done();</pre><p>Now we can execute this process as follows:</p><pre
class="programlisting">Execution execution =
processDefinition.startExecution();</pre><p>The invocation of <code
class="literal">startExecution</code> will print hello world to the
console:</p><pre class="programlisting">hello
+world</pre><p>One thing already worth noticing is that activities can be
configured
+ with properties. In the Display example, you can see that the message property
+ is configured differently in the two usages. With configuration properties
+ it becomes possible to write reusable activities. They can then be configured
+ differently each time they are used in a process. That is an essential part of
+ how process languages can be build on top of the Process Virtual Machine.
+ </p><p>The other part that needs explanation is that this activity
+ implementation does not contain any instructions for the propagation of the
+ execution. When a new process instance is started, the execution is positioned
+ in the initial node and that activity is executed. The method
+ <code class="literal">Display.execute</code> makes use of what
is called implicit propagation
+ of execution. Concretely this means that the activity itself does not
+ invoke any of the methods on the execution to propagate it. In that case
+ implicit propagation kicks in. Implicit propagation will take the first
+ transition if there is one. If not, it will end the execution. This explains
+ why both nodes <code class="literal">a</code> and <code
class="literal">b</code> are executed and that
+ the execution stops after node <code class="literal">b</code>
is executed.
+ </p><p>More details about the implicit proceed behaviour can be found
+ in <a href="#implicitproceedbehaviour" title="6.3. Implicit proceed
behaviour">Section 6.3, “Implicit proceed
behaviour”</a></p></div><div class="section"
lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2
class="title"><a
id="externalactivity"/>4.3. ExternalActivity</h2></div></div></div><p>External
activities are activities for which the responsibility for proceeding
+ the execution is transferred externally, meaning outside the process system. This
+ means that for the system that is executing the process, it's a wait state. The
+ execution will wait until an external trigger is given.
+ </p><p>For dealing with external triggers, <code
class="literal">ExternalActivity</code>
+ adds two methods to the <code
class="literal">Activity</code>:</p><pre
class="programlisting">public <span
class="bold"><strong>interface
ExternalActivity</strong></span> extends <span
class="bold"><strong>Activity</strong></span> {
+
+ void <span
class="bold"><strong>signal</strong></span>(Execution
execution,
+ String signal,
+ Map<String, Object> parameters) throws Exception;
+
+}</pre><p>Just like with plain activities, when an execution arrives in a
node, the
+ <code class="literal">execute</code>-method of the node
behaviour is invoked.
+ In external activities, the execute method typically does something to
+ transfer the responsibility to another system and then enters a wait
+ state by invoking <code
class="literal">execution.waitForSignal()</code>. For
+ example in the execute method, responsibility could be transferred to a
+ person by creating a task entry in a task management system and then
+ wait until the person completes the task.
+ </p><p>In case a node behaves as a wait state, then the execution will
+ wait in that node until the execution's <code
class="literal">signal</code> method
+ is invoked. The execution will delegate that signal to the behaviour Activity
+ of the current node.
+ </p><p>So the Activity's <code
class="literal">signal</code>-method is invoked
+ when the execution receives an external trigger during the wait state. With the
+ signal method, responsibility is transferred back to the process execution. For
+ example, when a person completes a task, the task management system calls the
+ signal method on the execution.
+ </p><p>A signal can optionally have a signal name and a map of
parameters. Most
+ common way on how node behaviours interprete the signal and parameters is that
+ the signal relates to the outgoing transition that needs to be taken and that the
+ parameters are set as variables on the execution. But those are just examples, it
+ is up to the activity to use the signal and the parameters as it pleases.
+ </p></div><div class="section"
lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2
class="title"><a
id="externalactivityexample"/>4.4. ExternalActivity
example</h2></div></div></div><p>Here's a first example
of a simple wait state implementation:
+ </p><pre class="programlisting">public <span
class="bold"><strong>class WaitState</strong></span>
implements <span
class="bold"><strong>ExternalActivity</strong></span> {
+
+ public void execute(ActivityExecution execution) {
+ <span
class="bold"><strong>execution.waitForSignal();</strong></span>
+ }
+
+ public void signal(ActivityExecution execution,
+ String signalName,
+ Map<String, Object> parameters) {
+ <span
class="bold"><strong>execution.take(signalName);</strong></span>
+ }
+}</pre><p>The <code
class="literal">execute</code>-method calls
+ <code class="literal">execution.waitForSignal()</code>. The
invocation of
+ <code class="literal">execution.waitForSignal()</code> will
bring the process execution
+ into a wait state until an external trigger is given.
+ </p><p><code class="literal">signal</code>-method
takes the transition with
+ the signal parameter as the transition name. So when an execution receives an
+ external trigger, the signal name is interpreted as the name of an outgoing
+ transition and the execution will be propagated over that transition.
+ </p><p>Here's the same simple process that has a transition from a to
b. This
+ time, the behaviour of the two nodes will be WaitState's.
+ </p><div class="figure"><a
id="process.diagram"/><div class="figure-contents"><div
class="mediaobject" align="center"><img
src="images/process.ab.png" align="middle" alt="The external
activity example process"/></div></div><p
class="title"><b>Figure 4.2. The external activity example
process</b></p></div><br class="figure-break"/><pre
class="programlisting">ClientProcessDefinition processDefinition =
ProcessFactory.build()
+ <span
class="bold"><strong>.node("a").initial().behaviour(new
WaitState())</strong></span>
+ .transition().to("b")
+ <span class="bold"><strong>.node("b").behaviour(new
WaitState())</strong></span>
+.done();</pre><p>Let's start a new process instance for this process
definition:</p><pre class="programlisting">ClientExecution execution
= processDefinition.startProcessInstance();</pre><p>Starting this process will
execute the <code class="literal">WaitState</code> activity
+ in node <code class="literal">a</code>. <code
class="literal">WaitState.execute</code> will invoke
+ <code class="literal">ActivityExecution.waitForSignal</code>.
So when the
+ <code
class="literal">processDefinition.startProcessInstance()</code>
returns, the execution
+ will still be positioned in node a.
+ </p><pre class="programlisting">assertEquals("a",
execution.getNodeName());</pre><p>Then we provide the external trigger by
calling the <code class="literal">signal</code>
+ method.
+ </p><pre
class="programlisting">execution.signal();</pre><p>The <code
class="literal">execution.signal()</code> will delegate to the activity
+ of the current node. So in this case that is the <code
class="literal">WaitState</code>
+ activity in node <code class="literal">a</code>. The <code
class="literal">WaitState.signal</code>
+ will invoke the <code class="literal">ActivityExecution.take(String
transitionName)</code>.
+ Since we didn't supply a signalName, the first transition with name <code
class="literal">null</code>
+ will be taken. The only transition we specified out of node <code
class="literal">a</code>
+ didn't get a name so that one will be taken. And that transition points to node
+ <code class="literal">b</code>. When the execution arrives in
node <code class="literal">b</code>,
+ the <code class="literal">WaitState</code> in node <code
class="literal">b</code> is executed.
+ Similar as we saw above, the execution will wait in node <code
class="literal">b</code>
+ and this time the <code class="literal">signal</code> method
will return, leaving the
+ execution positioned in node <code class="literal">b</code>.
+ </p><pre class="programlisting">assertEquals("b",
execution.getNodeName());</pre></div><div class="section"
lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2
class="title"><a id="basicprocessexecution"/>4.5. Basic
process execution</h2></div></div></div><p>In this next
example, we'll combine automatic activities and wait states.
+ This example builds upon the loan approval process with the <code
class="literal">WaitState</code>
+ and <code class="literal">Display</code> activities that
we've just created. Graphically,
+ the loan process looks like this:
+ </p><div class="figure"><a
id="basicprocessexecution.loan.process"/><div
class="figure-contents"><div class="mediaobject"
align="center"><img src="images/process.loan.png"
align="middle" alt="The loan
process"/></div></div><p
class="title"><b>Figure 4.3. The loan
process</b></p></div><br
class="figure-break"/><p>Building process graphs in Java code can be
tedious because you have to keep track of all the
+ references in local variables. To resolve that, the Process Virtual Machine comes
with a
+ ProcessFactory. The ProcessFactory is a kind of domain specific language (DSL) that
is embedded
+ in Java and eases the construction of process graphs. This pattern is also known as
+ a <a
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
href="http://martinfowler.com/bliki/FluentInterface.html">fl...
+ interface</a>.
+ </p><pre class="programlisting">ClientProcessDefinition
processDefinition = ProcessFactory.build("loan")
+ .node(<span class="bold"><strong>"submit loan
request"</strong></span>).initial().behaviour(new Display("loan
request submitted"))
+ .transition().to("evaluate")
+ <span
class="bold"><strong>.node("evaluate").behaviour(new
WaitState())</strong></span>
+ .transition("approve").to("wire money")
+ .transition("reject").to("end")
+ <span class="bold"><strong>.node("wire
money").behaviour(new Display("wire the
money"))</strong></span>
+ .transition().to("archive")
+ <span
class="bold"><strong>.node("archive").behaviour(new
WaitState())</strong></span>
+ .transition().to("end")
+ <span class="bold"><strong>.node("end").behaviour(new
WaitState())</strong></span>
+.done();</pre><p>For more details about the ProcessFactory, see <a
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
href="../../api/org/jbpm/pvm/package-summary.html">the
+ api docs</a>. An alternative for
+ the ProcessFactory would be to create an XML language and an XML parser for
expressing
+ processes. The XML parser can then instantiate the classes of package
+ <code class="literal">org.jbpm.pvm.internal.model</code>
directly. That approach is typically taken by
+ process languages.
+ </p><p>The initial node <code class="literal">submit loan
request</code> and the node
+ <code class="literal">wire the money</code> are automatic
nodes. In this example,
+ the <code class="literal">Display</code> implementation of node
+ <code class="literal">wire the money</code> uses the Java
API's to just print a
+ message to the console. But the witty reader can imagine an alternative
+ <code class="literal">Activity</code> implementation that uses
the Java API of a payment
+ processing library to make a real automatic payment.
+ </p><p>A new execution for the process above can be started like this
+ </p><pre class="programlisting">ClientExecution execution =
processDefinition.startProcessInstance();</pre><p>When the <code
class="literal">startExecution</code>-method returns, the node
+ <code class="literal">submit loan request</code> will be
executed and the execution will be
+ positioned in the node <code class="literal">evaluate</code>.
+ </p><div class="figure"><a
id="execution.loan.evaluate"/><div
class="figure-contents"><div class="mediaobject"
align="center"><img src="images/execution.loan.evaluate.png"
align="middle" alt="Execution positioned in the 'evaluate'
node"/></div></div><p
class="title"><b>Figure 4.4. Execution positioned in the
'evaluate' node</b></p></div><br
class="figure-break"/><p>Now, the execution is at an interesting point.
There are two transitions out of
+ the state <code class="literal">evaluate</code>. One
transition is called <code class="literal">approve</code>
+ and one transition is called <code
class="literal">reject</code>. As we explained above, the WaitState
+ implementation will take the transition that corresponds to the signal that is given.
+ Let's feed in the 'approve' signal like this:
+ </p><pre
class="programlisting">execution.signal("approve");</pre><p>The
<code class="literal">approve</code> signal will cause the execution
to take the <code class="literal">approve</code>
+ transition and it will arrive in the node <code class="literal">wire
money</code>.
+ </p><p>In node <code class="literal">wire
money</code>, the message will be printed to the console.
+ Since, the <code class="literal">Display</code> activity
didn't invoke the
+ <code class="literal">execution.waitForSignal()</code>, nor any
of the other execution propagation
+ methods, the implicit proceed behaviour will just make the execution continue
+ over the outgoing transition to node <code
class="literal">archive</code>, which is again
+ a <code class="literal">WaitState</code>.
+ </p><div class="figure"><a
id="execution.loan.archive"/><div
class="figure-contents"><div class="mediaobject"
align="center"><img src="images/execution.loan.archive.png"
align="middle" alt="Execution positioned in 'archive'
node"/></div></div><p
class="title"><b>Figure 4.5. Execution positioned in 'archive'
node</b></p></div><br class="figure-break"/><p>So
only when the <code class="literal">archive</code> wait state is
reached,
+ the <code class="literal">signal("approve")</code>
returns.
+ </p><p>Another signal like this:</p><pre
class="programlisting">execution.signal("approve");</pre><p>will
bring the execution eventually in the end state.</p><div
class="figure"><a id="execution.loan.end"/><div
class="figure-contents"><div class="mediaobject"
align="center"><img src="images/execution.loan.end.png"
align="middle" alt="Execution positioned in the 'end'
node"/></div></div><p
class="title"><b>Figure 4.6. Execution positioned in the 'end'
node</b></p></div><br
class="figure-break"/></div><div class="section"
lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2
class="title"><a
id="events"/>4.6. Events</h2></div></div></div><p>Events
are points in the process definition to which a list of
+ <code class="literal">EventListener</code>s can be subscribed.
+ </p><pre class="programlisting">public interface EventListener
extends Serializable {
+
+ void notify(EventListenerExecution execution) throws Exception;
+
+}</pre><p>The motivation for events is to allow for
+ developers to add programming logic to a process without changing the process
diagram.
+ This is a very valuable instrument in facilitating the collaboration between business
analysts
+ and developers. Business analysts
+ are responsible for expressing the requirements. When they use a process graph to
document
+ those requirements, developers can take this diagram and make it executable. Events
can
+ be a very handy to insert technical details into a process (like e.g. some database
insert)
+ in which the business analyst is not interested.
+ </p><p>Most common events are fired by the execution automatically:
+ </p><p><span class="bold"><strong>WARNING: the
following event names will be
+ subject to change in the next release: see
+ <a
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
href="https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBPM-1753">JBPM-175...
+ </p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul><li><code
class="literal"><span
class="bold"><strong>Event.TRANSITION_TAKE</strong></span>
= "transition-take"</code> :
+ fired on transitions when transitions are taken.
+ </li><li><code class="literal"><span
class="bold"><strong>Event.NODE_BEGIN</strong></span> =
"node-begin"</code> : fired on the node
+ when execution enters that node. This happens when execution takes a transition
+ to that node, when a child node is being executed with <code
class="literal">execution.execute(Node)</code>
+ or when a transition is taken from a node outside that node to a contained node.
+ The latter refers to super states in state machines.
+ </li><li><code class="literal"><span
class="bold"><strong>Event.NODE_END</strong></span> =
"node-end"</code> : fired on the node
+ when a transition is taken out of that node or when a child node execution is
+ finished and the execution is propagated to the parent node.
+ </li><li><code class="literal"><span
class="bold"><strong>Event.PROCESS_BEGIN</strong></span> =
"process-begin"</code> : fired on a process
+ when a new process is started.
+ </li><li><code class="literal"><span
class="bold"><strong>Event.PROCESS_END</strong></span> =
"process-end"</code> : fired on a process
+ when a new process is ended. This might include a executions that are ended
+ with a cancelled or error state.
+ </li></ul></div><p>Events are identified by the combination
of a process element
+ and an event name. Users and process languages can also fire events
+ programmatically with the fire method on the Execution:
+ </p><pre class="programlisting">public interface Execution
extends Serializable {
+ ...
+ void fire(String eventName, ProcessElement eventSource);
+ ...
+}</pre><p>A list of <code
class="literal">EventListeners</code> can be associated to an
+ event. But event listeners can not influence the control flow of the execution since
+ they are merely listeners to an execution which is already in progress. This is
different from
+ activities that serve as the behaviour for nodes. Node behaviour activities are
responsible
+ for propagating the execution.
+ </p><p>We'll create a <code
class="literal">PrintLn</code> event listener which is
+ very similar to the <code class="literal">Display</code>
activity from above.
+ </p><pre class="programlisting">public class PrintLn implements
EventListener {
+
+ String message;
+
+ public PrintLn(String message) {
+ this.message = message;
+ }
+
+ public void notify(EventListenerExecution execution) throws Exception {
+ System.out.println("message");
+ }
+}</pre><p>Several <code class="literal">PrintLn</code>
listeners will be subscribed to events in
+ the process.</p><div class="figure"><a
id="action.process"/><div class="figure-contents"><div
class="mediaobject" align="center"><img
src="images/process.ab.png" align="middle" alt="The PrintLn
listener process"/></div></div><p
class="title"><b>Figure 4.7. The PrintLn listener
process</b></p></div><br class="figure-break"/><pre
class="programlisting">ClientProcessDefinition processDefinition =
ProcessFactory.build()
+ .node("a").initial().behaviour(new AutomaticActivity())
+ <span class="bold"><strong>.event("node-end")
+ .listener(new PrintLn("leaving a"))
+ .listener(new PrintLn("second message while leaving
a"))</strong></span>
+ .transition().to("b")
+ <span class="bold"><strong>.listener(new PrintLn("taking
transition"))</strong></span>
+ .node("b").behaviour(new WaitState())
+ .event("node-begin")
+ <span class="bold"><strong>.listener(new
PrintLn("entering b"))</strong></span>
+.done();</pre><p>The first event shows how to register multiple listeners to
the same
+ event. They will be notified in the order as they are specified.
+ </p><p>Then, on the transition, there is only one type of event. So in
that case,
+ the event type must not be specified and the listeners can be added directly on
+ the transition.
+ </p><p>A listeners will be called each time an execution fires the event
to
+ which the listener is subscribed. The execution will be provided in the activity
+ interface as a parameter and can be used by listeners except for the methods that
+ control the propagation of execution.
+ </p></div><div class="section"
lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2
class="title"><a id="d0e1133"/>4.7. Event
propagation</h2></div></div></div><p>Events are by default
propagated to enclosing process elements. The motivation
+ is to allow for listeners on process definitions or composite nodes that get
executed
+ for all events that occur within that process element. For example this feature
+ allows to register an event listener on a process definition or a composite node on
+ <code class="literal">node-end</code> events. Such action will
be executed if that node is
+ left. And if that event listener is registered on a composite node, it will also be
executed
+ for all nodes that are left within that composite node.
+ </p><p>To show this clearly, we'll create a <code
class="literal">DisplaySource</code> event listener
+ that will print the message <code
class="literal">leaving</code> and the source of the event
+ to the console.
+ </p><pre class="programlisting">public class <span
class="bold"><strong>DisplaySource</strong></span>
implements EventListener {
+
+ public void execute(EventListenerExecution execution) {
+ <span class="bold"><strong>System.out.println("leaving
"+execution.getEventSource());</strong></span>
+ }
+}</pre><p>Note that the purpose of event listeners is not to be visible,
that's why the event listener
+ itself should not be displayed in the diagram. A <code
class="literal">DisplaySource</code> event listener
+ will be added as a listener to the event <code
class="literal">node-end</code> on the composite node.
+ </p><p>The next process shows how the <code
class="literal">DisplaySource</code> event listener is registered
+ as a listener to to the 'node-end' event on the <code
class="literal">composite</code> node:</p><div
class="figure"><a id="process.propagate"/><div
class="figure-contents"><div class="mediaobject"
align="center"><img src="images/process.propagate.png"
align="middle" alt="A process with an invisible event listener on a
node-end event on a composite node."/></div></div><p
class="title"><b>Figure 4.8. A process with an invisible event listener
on a node-end event on a composite node.</b></p></div><br
class="figure-break"/><pre
class="programlisting">ClientProcessDefinition processDefinition =
ProcessFactory.build("propagate")
+ <span class="bold"><strong>.compositeNode("composite")
+ .event(Event.NODE_END)
+ .listener(new DisplaySource())</strong></span>
+ .node("a").initial().behaviour(new WaitState())
+ .transition().to("b")
+ .node("b").behaviour(new WaitState())
+ .transition().to("c")
+ .compositeEnd()
+ .node("c").behaviour(new WaitState())
+.done();</pre><p>Next we'll start an execution.</p><pre
class="programlisting">ClientExecution execution =
processDefinition.startProcessInstance();</pre><p>After starting a new
execution, the execution will be in node <code
class="literal">a</code> as
+ that is the initial node. No nodes have been left so no message is logged. Next a
signal
+ will be given to the execution, causing it to take the transition from <code
class="literal">a</code>
+ to <code class="literal">b</code>.
+ </p><pre
class="programlisting">execution.signal();</pre><p>When the
signal method returns, the execution will have taken the transition and
+ the <code class="literal">node-end</code> event will be fired
on node <code class="literal">a</code>. That
+ event will be propagated to the
+ composite node and to the process definition. Since our <code
class="literal">DisplaySource</code>
+ event listener is placed
+ on the <code class="literal">composite</code> node, it will
receive the event and print the following
+ message on the console:
+ </p><pre class="programlisting">leaving
node(a)</pre><p>Another</p><pre
class="programlisting">execution.signal();</pre><p>will take the
transition from b to c. That will fire two node-leave events. One on
+ node b and one on node composite. So the following lines will be appended to the
console
+ output:</p><pre class="programlisting">leaving node(b)
+leaving node(composite)</pre><p>Event propagation is build on the
hierarchical composition structure of the process
+ definition. The top level element is always the process definition. The process
+ definition contains a list of nodes. Each node can be a leaf node or it can be a
+ composite node, which means that it contains a list of nested nodes. Nested nodes
+ can be used for e.g. super states or composite activities in nested process languages
like BPEL.
+ </p><p>So the even model also works similarly for composite nodes as it
did for the process
+ definition above. Suppose that 'Phase one' models
+ a super state as in state machines. Then event propagation allows to subscribe to
all events
+ within that super state. The idea is that the hierarchical composition corresponds
to
+ diagram representation. If an element 'e' is drawn inside another element
'p', then p
+ is the parent of e. A process definition has a set of top level nodes. Every node
can have
+ a set of nested nodes. The parent of a transition is considered as the first common
+ parent for it's source and destination.
+ </p><p>If an event listener is not interested in propagated events,
propagation can be disabled
+ with <code class="literal">propagationDisabled()</code> while
building the process with the
+ <code class="literal">ProcessFactory</code>. The next process
is the same process
+ as above except that propagated events will be disabled on the event listener. The
graph diagram
+ remains the same.
+ </p><div class="figure"><a
id="process.propagate.propagation.disabled"/><div
class="figure-contents"><div class="mediaobject"
align="center"><img src="images/process.propagate.png"
align="middle" alt="A process with an event listener to 'node-end'
events with propagation disabled."/></div></div><p
class="title"><b>Figure 4.9. A process with an event listener to
'node-end' events with propagation disabled.</b></p></div><br
class="figure-break"/><p>Building the process with the process
factory:
+ </p><pre class="programlisting">ClientProcessDefinition
processDefinition = ProcessFactory.build("propagate")
+ .compositeNode("composite")
+ .event(Event.NODE_END)
+ .listener(new DisplaySource())
+ <span
class="bold"><strong>.propagationDisabled()</strong></span>
+ .node("a").initial().behaviour(new WaitState())
+ .transition().to("b")
+ .node("b").behaviour(new WaitState())
+ .transition().to("c")
+ .compositeEnd()
+ .node("c").behaviour(new WaitState())
+.done();</pre><p>So when the first signal is given for this process, again
the <code class="literal">node-end</code>
+ event will be fired on node <code class="literal">a</code>, but
now the event listener on the composite
+ node will not be executed cause
+ propagated events have been disabled. Disabling propagation is a property on the
individual
+ event listener and doesn't influence the other listeners. The event will always
be fired and
+ propagated over the whole parent hierarchy.
+ </p><pre class="programlisting">ClientExecution execution =
processDefinition.startProcessInstance();</pre><p>The first signal will take
the process from <code class="literal">a</code> to
+ <code class="literal">b</code>. No messages will be printed to
the console.
+ </p><pre
class="programlisting">execution.signal();</pre><p>Next, the
second signal will take the transition from b to c.
+ </p><pre
class="programlisting">execution.signal()</pre><p>Again two
<code class="literal">node-end</code>
+ events are fired just like above on nodes <code
class="literal">b</code> and <code
class="literal">composite</code>
+ respectively. The first event
+ is the <code class="literal">node-end</code> event on node
<code class="literal">b</code>. That will be propagated
+ to the <code class="literal">composite</code> node. So the
event
+ listener will not be executed for this event cause it has propagation disabled. But
the
+ event listener will be executed for the <code
class="literal">node-end</code> event on the
+ <code class="literal">composite</code> node. That is not
+ propagated, but fired directly on the <code
class="literal">composite</code> node. So the event
+ listener will now be executed
+ only once for the composite node as shown in the following console output:
+ </p><pre class="programlisting">leaving
node(composite)</pre></div></div><div class="chapter"
lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2
class="title"><a id="processanatomy"/>Chapter 5. Process
anatomy</h2></div></div></div><p>Above we already touched
briefly on the two main process constructs:
+ Nodes, transitions and node composition. This chapter explores in full
+ all the possibilities of the process definition structures.
+ </p><p>There are basically two forms of process languages: graph based and
composite
+ process languages. First of all, the process supports both. Even graph based
execution
+ and node composition can be used in combination to implement something like UML super
states.
+ Furthermore, automatic functional activities can be implemented so that they can be
+ used with transitions as well as with node composition.
+ </p><div class="figure"><a
id="process.anatomy"/><div class="figure-contents"><div
class="mediaobject" align="center"><img
src="images/process.anatomy.classes.png" align="middle" alt="UML
class diagram of the logical process structure"/></div></div><p
class="title"><b>Figure 5.1. UML class diagram of the logical process
structure</b></p></div><br
class="figure-break"/><p>Next we'll show a series of example
diagram structures that can be formed
+ with the PVM process model.
+ </p><div class="figure"><a
id="transition"/><div class="figure-contents"><div
class="mediaobject" align="center"><img
src="images/transition.png" align="middle" alt="Any two nodes can
be connected with a transition."/></div></div><p
class="title"><b>Figure 5.2. Any two nodes can be connected with a
transition.</b></p></div><br
class="figure-break"/><div class="figure"><a
id="self.transition"/><div class="figure-contents"><div
class="mediaobject" align="center"><img
src="images/self.transition.png" align="middle" alt="A self
transition."/></div></div><p
class="title"><b>Figure 5.3. A self
transition.</b></p></div><br
class="figure-break"/><div class="figure"><a
id="composite.node"/><div class="figure-contents"><div
class="mediaobject" align="center"><img
src="images/composite.node.png" align="middle" alt="Composite
node is a list of nested nodes."/></div></div><p
class="title"><b>Figure 5.4. Composite node is a list of nested
nodes.</b></p></div><br class="figure-bre!
ak"/><div class="figure"><a
id="transition.into.composite"/><div
class="figure-contents"><div class="mediaobject"
align="center"><img src="images/transition.into.composite.png"
align="middle" alt="Transition to a node inside a
composite."/></div></div><p
class="title"><b>Figure 5.5. Transition to a node inside a
composite.</b></p></div><br
class="figure-break"/><div class="figure"><a
id="transition.out.of.composite"/><div
class="figure-contents"><div class="mediaobject"
align="center"><img src="images/transition.out.of.composite.png"
align="middle" alt="Transition from a node inside a composite to a node
outside the composite."/></div></div><p
class="title"><b>Figure 5.6. Transition from a node inside a composite
to a node outside the composite.</b></p></div><br
class="figure-break"/><div class="figure"><a
id="transition.inheritence"/><div
class="figure-contents"><div class="mediaobject"
align="center"><img src="images/transition.inheritence.png"
align="middle" alt="Tra!
nsition of composite nodes are inherited. The node inside can take the
transition of the composite node."/></div></div><p
class="title"><b>Figure 5.7. Transition of composite nodes are
inherited. The node inside can take the transition of the composite
node.</b></p></div><br class="figure-break"/><div
class="figure"><a id="transition.to.outer"/><div
class="figure-contents"><div class="mediaobject"
align="center"><img src="images/transition.to.outer.png"
align="middle" alt="Transition from a node to an outer
composite."/></div></div><p
class="title"><b>Figure 5.8. Transition from a node to an outer
composite.</b></p></div><br
class="figure-break"/><div class="figure"><a
id="transition.to.inner"/><div
class="figure-contents"><div class="mediaobject"
align="center"><img src="images/transition.to.inner.png"
align="middle" alt="Transition from a composite node to an inner composed
node."/></div></div><p
class="title"><b>Figure 5.9. Transition from a composite node to an
inner composed node.</b></p></div><br
class="figure-break"/><div class="!
figure"><a id="initial.in.composite"/><div
class="figure-contents"><div class="mediaobject"
align="center"><img src="images/initial.in.composite.png"
align="middle" alt="An initial node inside a composite
node."/></div></div><p
class="title"><b>Figure 5.10. An initial node inside a composite
node.</b></p></div><br
class="figure-break"/></div><div class="chapter"
lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2
class="title"><a
id="advancedgraphexecution"/>Chapter 6. Advanced graph
execution</h2></div></div></div><div
class="toc"><dl><dt><span class="section"><a
href="#d0e1378">6.1.
Loops</a></span></dt><dt><span
class="section"><a href="#d0e1386">6.2. Sub
processes</a></span></dt><dt><span
class="section"><a href="#implicitproceedbehaviour">6.3.
Implicit proceed behaviour</a></span></dt><dt><span
class="section"><a href="#functionalactivities">6.4.
Functional activities</a></span></dt><dt><span
class="section"><a href="#executionandthreads">6.5. Execution
and threads</a><!
/span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a
href="#d0e1655">6.6. Process c
oncurrency</a></span></dt><dt><span
class="section"><a href="#d0e1695">6.7. Exception
handlers</a></span></dt><dt><span
class="section"><a href="#d0e1725">6.8. Process
modifications</a></span></dt><dt><span
class="section"><a href="#d0e1731">6.9. Locking and execution
state</a></span></dt></dl></div><div
class="section" lang="en"><div
class="titlepage"><div><div><h2
class="title"><a
id="d0e1378"/>6.1. Loops</h2></div></div></div><p>Activities
can implement loops based on transitions or on node composition.
+ Loops can contain wait states.
+ </p><p>To support high numbers of automatic loop executions, the Process
Virtual Machine
+ tranformed the propagation of execution from tail recursion to a while loop.
+ </p></div><div class="section"
lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2
class="title"><a id="d0e1386"/>6.2. Sub
processes</h2></div></div></div><p>TODO: sub
processes</p></div><div class="section"
lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2
class="title"><a id="implicitproceedbehaviour"/>6.3. Implicit
proceed behaviour</h2></div></div></div><p>When an <code
class="literal">Activity</code> is used as node behaviour, it can
+ explicitely propagate the execution with following methods:
+ </p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul><li><code
class="literal">waitForSignal()</code></li><li><code
class="literal">take(Transition)</code></li><li><code
class="literal">end(*)</code></li><li><code
class="literal">execute(Node)</code></li><li><code
class="literal">createExecution(*)</code></li></ul></div><p>When
<code class="literal">Activity</code> implementations used for node
behviour
+ don't call any of the following execution propagation methods, then, after
+ the activity is executed, the execution will apply the implicit proceed behaviour.
+ </p><p>The implicit proceed behaviour is defined as
follows:</p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul><li>If the
current node has a default outgoing transition, take it.</li><li>If the
current node has a parent node, move back to the parent
node.</li><li>Otherwise, end this
execution.</li></ul></div><p>Process languages can overwrite the
implicit proceed behaviour
+ by overriding the <code class="literal">proceed</code> method
in
+ <code class="literal">ExecutionImpl</code>.
+ </p></div><div class="section"
lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2
class="title"><a id="functionalactivities"/>6.4. Functional
activities</h2></div></div></div><p>Activities that also can
be used as event listeners are called functional
+ activities. Examples of automatic activities are sending an email, doing a database
+ update, generating a pdf, calculating an average, etc. All of these are automatic
+ activities that do not change the execution flow. Here's how such activities can
+ be implemented:
+ </p><pre class="programlisting">public class FunctionalActivity
implements Activity, EventListener {
+ public void execute(ActivityExecution execution) {
+ perform(execution);
+ }
+ public void notify(EventListenerExecution execution) {
+ perform(execution);
+ }
+ void perform(OpenExecution execution) {
+ ...do functional work...
+ }
+ }</pre><p>The <code class="literal">perform</code>
method takes an <code class="literal">OpenExecution</code>,
+ which is the supertype of both <code
class="literal">ActivityExecution</code> and
+ <code class="literal">EventListenerExecution</code>. <code
class="literal">OpenExecution</code>
+ does not allow any of the specific purpose methods, but still
+ the current state and the process definition can be inspected as well
+ as the variables, which contain the context information for the process
+ execution.
+ </p><p>None of these methods actually invoke execution propagation
methods.
+ So after the perform method is completed, the execution will
+ <a href="#implicitproceedbehaviour" title="6.3. Implicit proceed
behaviour">proceed in the default way</a>.
+ </p></div><div class="section"
lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2
class="title"><a id="executionandthreads"/>6.5. Execution and
threads</h2></div></div></div><p>This section explains how
the Process Virtual Machine boroughs the thread
+ from the client to bring an execution from one wait state to another.
+ </p><p>When a client invokes a method (like e.g. the signal method) on an
execution,
+ by default, the Process Virtual Machine will use that thread to progress the
execution
+ until it reached a wait state. Once the next wait state has been reached, the
+ method returns and the client gets the thread back. This is the default way
+ for the Process Virtual Machine to operate. Two more levels of asynchonous
+ execution complement this default behaviour:
+ <a href="#asynchronouscontinuations" title="Chapter 9. Asynchronous
continuations">Asynchronous continuations</a>
+ and the <a href="#architecture"
title="Chapter 3. Architecture">asynchronous command service</a>.
+ </p><p>The next process will show the basics concretely. It has three
wait states
+ and four automatic nodes.
+ </p><div class="figure"><a
id="process.automatic"/><div class="figure-contents"><div
class="mediaobject" align="center"><img
src="images/process.automatic.png" align="middle" alt="Process
with many sequential automatic activities."/></div></div><p
class="title"><b>Figure 6.1. Process with many sequential automatic
activities.</b></p></div><br
class="figure-break"/><p>Here's how to build the
process:</p><pre class="programlisting">ClientProcessDefinition
processDefinition = ProcessFactory.build("automatic")
+ .<span class="bold"><strong>node("wait
1").initial()</strong></span>.behaviour(new <span
class="bold"><strong>WaitState</strong></span>())
+ .transition().to("automatic 1")
+ .<span class="bold"><strong>node("automatic
1")</strong></span>.behaviour(new <span
class="bold"><strong>Display("one")</strong></span>)
+ .transition().to("wait 2")
+ .<span class="bold"><strong>node("wait
2")</strong></span>.behaviour(new <span
class="bold"><strong>WaitState</strong></span>())
+ .transition().to("automatic 2")
+ .<span class="bold"><strong>node("automatic
2")</strong></span>.behaviour(new <span
class="bold"><strong>Display("two")</strong></span>)
+ .transition().to("automatic 3")
+ .<span class="bold"><strong>node("automatic
3")</strong></span>.behaviour(new <span
class="bold"><strong>Display("three")</strong></span>)
+ .transition().to("automatic 4")
+ .<span class="bold"><strong>node("automatic
4")</strong></span>.behaviour(new <span
class="bold"><strong>Display("four")</strong></span>)
+ .transition().to("wait 3")
+ .<span class="bold"><strong>node("wait
3")</strong></span>.behaviour(new <span
class="bold"><strong>WaitState</strong></span>())
+.done();</pre><p>Let's walk you through one execution of this process.
+ </p><pre class="programlisting">ClientExecution execution =
processDefinition.startProcessInstance();</pre><p>Starting a new execution
means that the initial node is executed. So if an automatic
+ activity is the initial node, this means that immediately the first unnamed outgoing
transition
+ is taken. This happens all inside of the invocation of <code
class="literal">startProcessInstance</code>.
+ </p><p>In this case however, the initial node is a wait state. So
+ the method <code class="literal">startProcessInstance</code>
returns immediately and the execution will be
+ positioned in the initial node 'wait 1'.
+ </p><div class="figure"><a
id="execution.automatic.wait1"/><div
class="figure-contents"><div class="mediaobject"
align="center"><img src="images/execution.automatic.wait1.png"
align="middle" alt="A new execution will be positioned in 'wait
1'."/></div></div><p
class="title"><b>Figure 6.2. A new execution will be positioned in
'wait 1'.</b></p></div><br
class="figure-break"/><p>Then an external trigger is given with the
signal method.</p><pre
class="programlisting">execution.signal();</pre><p>As explained
above when <a href="#externalactivityexample"
title="4.4. ExternalActivity example">introducing the WaitState</a>,
+ that signal will cause the default transition to be taken. The
+ transition will move the execution to node <code
class="literal">automatic 1</code> and execute it.
+ The execute method of the <code class="literal">Display</code>
activity in <code class="literal">automatic 1</code>
+ print a line to the console and it will <span
class="bold"><strong>not</strong></span> call
+ <code class="literal">execution.waitForSignal()</code>.
Therefore, the execution will proceed by
+ taking the default transition out of <code class="literal">automatic
1</code>. At this stage, the
+ signal method is still blocking. Another way to think about it is that the execution
+ methods like <code class="literal">signal</code> will use the
thread of the client to interpret
+ the process definition until a wait state is reached.
+ </p><p>Then the execution arrives in <code
class="literal">wait 2</code> and executes
+ the <code class="literal">WaitState</code> activity. That
method will invoke
+ the <code class="literal">execution.waitForSignal()</code>,
which will cause the signal method
+ to return. That is when the thread is given back to the client that invoked the
+ <code class="literal">signal</code> method.
+ </p><p>So when the signal method returns, the execution is positioned in
<code class="literal">wait 2</code>.</p><div
class="figure"><a id="execution.automatic.wait2"/><div
class="figure-contents"><div class="mediaobject"
align="center"><img src="images/execution.automatic.wait2.png"
align="middle" alt="One signal brought the execution from 'initial'
to 'wait 2'."/></div></div><p
class="title"><b>Figure 6.3. One signal brought the execution from
'initial' to 'wait 2'.</b></p></div><br
class="figure-break"/><p>Then the execution is now waiting for an
external trigger just as an object
+ (more precisely an object graph) in memory until the next external trigger is given
+ with the signal method.
+ </p><pre
class="programlisting">execution.signal();</pre><p>This second
invocation of signal will take the execution similarly all the
+ way to <code class="literal">wait 3</code> before it returns.
+ </p><div class="figure"><a
id="automatic.wait3"/><div class="figure-contents"><div
class="mediaobject" align="center"><img
src="images/ch04.automatic.wait3.png" align="middle" alt="The
second signal brought the execution all the way to 'wait
3'."/></div></div><p
class="title"><b>Figure 6.4. The second signal brought the execution
all the way to 'wait 3'.</b></p></div><br
class="figure-break"/><p>The benefits of using this paradigm is that
the same process definition
+ can be executed in <a href="#">client execution mode</a>
+ (in-memory without persistence) as well as in <a
href="#persistentexecutionmode" title="2.2. Persistent execution
mode">
+ persistent execution mode</a>, depending on the application and on the
environment.
+ </p><p>When executing a process in persistent mode, this is how you
typically want
+ to bind that process execution to transactions of the database:
+ </p><div class="figure"><a
id="transactions.png"/><div class="figure-contents"><div
class="mediaobject" align="center"><img
src="images/transactions.png" align="middle" alt="Transactions
over time in persistent execution mode."/></div></div><p
class="title"><b>Figure 6.5. Transactions over time in persistent
execution mode.</b></p></div><br
class="figure-break"/><p>In most situations, the computational work
that needs to be done as part of
+ the process after an external trigger (the red pieces) is pretty minimal. Typically
+ transactions combining the process execution and processing the request from the
+ UI takes typically less then a second. Whereas the wait state in business processes
+ typically can span for hours, days or even years. The clue is to clearly distinct
+ when a wait state starts so that only the computational work done before the start
+ of that wait state should be included in the transaction.
+ </p><p>Think of
+ it this way: "When an approval arrives, what are all the automated processing
that
+ needs to be done before the process system needs to wait for another external
+ trigger?" Unless pdf's need to be generated or mass emails need to be
send,
+ the amount of time that this takes is usually neglectable. That is why in the
+ default persistent execution mode, the process work is executed in the thread
+ of the client.
+ </p><p>This reasoning even holds in case of concurrent paths of
execution.
+ When a single path of execution splits into concurrent paths of execution,
+ the process overhead of calculating that is neglectable. So that is why it
+ makes sense for a fork or split activity implementation that targets persistent
+ execution mode to spawn the concurrent paths sequentially in the same thread.
+ Basically it's all just computational work as part of the same transaction.
+ This can only be done because the fork/split knows that each concurrent path
+ of execution will return whenever a wait state is encountered.
+ </p><p>Since this is a difficult concept to grasp, I'll explain it
again with other
+ words. Look at it from the overhead that is produced by the process execution
+ itself in persistent execution mode. If in a transaction, an execution is given
+ an external trigger and that causes the execution to split into multiple concurrent
+ paths of execution. Then the process overhead of calculating this is neglectable.
+ Also the overhead of the generated SQL is neglectable. And since all the work done
+ in the concurrent branches must be done inside that single transaction, there is
+ typically no point in having fork/split implementations spawn the concurrent
+ paths of execution in multiple threads.
+ </p><p>To make executable processes, developers need to know exactly what
the automatic activities
+ are, what the wait states are and which threads will be allocated to the process
execution.
+ For business analysts that draw the analysis process, things are a bit simpler. For
the
+ activities they draw, they usually know whether it's a human or a system that is
responsible.
+ But they typically don't not how this translates to threads and transactions.
+ </p><p>So for the developer, the first job is to analyse what needs to be
executed
+ within the thread of control of the process and what is outside. Looking for the
external
+ triggers can be a good start to find the wait states in a process, just like verbs
and nouns
+ can be the rule of thumb in building UML class diagrams.
+ </p></div><div class="section"
lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2
class="title"><a id="d0e1655"/>6.6. Process
concurrency</h2></div></div></div><p>To model process
concurrency, there is a parent-child tree structure on the
+ execution. The idea is that the main path of execution is the root of that tree.
+ The main path of execution is also called the process instance. It is the execution
+ that is created when starting or creating a new process instance for a given
+ process definition.
+ </p><p>Now, because the main path of execution is the same object as the
+ process instance, this keeps the usage simple in case of simple processes
+ without concurrency.
+ </p><div class="figure"><a
id="execution.structure"/><div
class="figure-contents"><div class="mediaobject"
align="center"><img
src="images/class.diagram.process.execution.png" align="middle"
alt="UML class diagram of the basic execution
structure"/></div></div><p
class="title"><b>Figure 6.6. UML class diagram of the basic execution
structure</b></p></div><br
class="figure-break"/><p>To establish multiple concurrent paths of
execution, activity implementations
+ like a fork or split can create child executions with method
+ <code class="literal">ActivityExecution.createExecution</code>.
Activity implementations
+ like join or merge can stop these concurrent paths of execution by calling
+ method <code class="literal">stop</code> on the concurrent
execution.
+ </p><p>Only leaf executions can be active. Non-leave executions should
be
+ inactive. This tree structure of executions doesn't enforce a particular type of
+ concurrency or join behaviour. It's up to the forks or and-splits and to the
joins
+ or and-merges to use the execution tree structure in any way they want to define
+ the wanted concurrency behaviour. Here you see an example
+ of concurrent executions.
+ </p><div class="figure"><a
id="concurrency"/><div class="figure-contents"><div
class="mediaobject" align="center"><img
src="images/execution.concurrency.png" align="middle"
alt="Concurrent paths of execution"/></div></div><p
class="title"><b>Figure 6.7. Concurrent paths of
execution</b></p></div><br
class="figure-break"/><p>There is a billing and a shipping path of
execution. In this case, the
+ flat bar nodes represent nodes that fork and join. The execution shows a three
+ executions. The main path of execution is inactive (represented as gray) and the
+ billing and shipping paths of execution are active and point to the node
+ <code class="literal">bill</code> and <code
class="literal">ship</code> respectively.
+ </p><p>It's up to the node behaviour implementations how they want to
use this
+ execution structure. Suppose that multiple tasks have to be completed before the
+ execution is to proceed. The node behaviour can spawn a series of child executions
+ for this. Or alternatively, the task component could support task groups that
+ are associated to one single execution. In that case, the task component becomes
+ responsible for synchronizing the tasks, thereby moving this responsibility
+ outside the scope of the execution tree structure.
+ </p></div><div class="section"
lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2
class="title"><a id="d0e1695"/>6.7. Exception
handlers</h2></div></div></div><p>In all the code that is
associated to a process
+ like <code class="literal">Activity</code>s, <code
class="literal">EventListeners</code> and
+ <code class="literal">Condition</code>s, it's possible to
associate exception handlers. This
+ can be thought of as including try-catch blocks in
+ the method implementations of those implementations. But in order to build more
reusable building
+ blocks for both the delegation classes and the exception handling logic, exception
handlers are
+ added to the core process model.
+ </p><p>An exception handler can be associated to any process element.
When an exception
+ occurs in a delegation class, a matching exception handler will be searched for. If
+ such an exception handler is found, it will get a chance to handle the exception.
+ </p><p>If an exception handler completes without problems, then the
exception is considered
+ handled and the execution resumes right after the delegation code that was called.
For example,
+ a transition has three actions and the second action throws an exception that is
handled
+ by an exception handler, then
+ </p><p>Writing automatic activities that are exception handler aware is
easy. The
+ default is to proceed anyway. No method needs to be called on the execution. So
+ if an automatic activity throws an exception that is handled by an exception
handler,
+ the execution will just proceed after that activity. It becomes a big more difficult
+ for control flow activities. They might have to include try-finally blocks to
+ invoke the proper methods on the execution before an exception handler gets a
+ chance to handle the exception. For example, if an activity is a wait state and
+ an exception occurs, then there is a risk that the thread jumps over the
+ invocation of <code
class="literal">execution.waitForSignal()</code>, causing the execution
+ to proceed after the activity.
+ </p><p>TODO: exceptionhandler.isRethrowMasked</p><p>TODO:
transactional exception handlers</p><p>TODO: we never catch
errors</p></div><div class="section"
lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2
class="title"><a id="d0e1725"/>6.8. Process
modifications</h2></div></div></div><p>TODO: process
modifications</p></div><div class="section"
lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2
class="title"><a id="d0e1731"/>6.9. Locking and execution
state</h2></div></div></div><p>The state of an execution is
either active or locked. An active
+ execution is either executing or waiting for an external trigger. If an
+ execution is not in <code class="literal">STATE_ACTIVE</code>,
then it is locked.
+ A locked execution is read only and cannot receive any external triggers.
+ </p><p>When a new execution is created, it is in STATE_ACTIVE. To change
+ the state to a locked state, use lock(String). Some STATE_* constants
+ are provided that represent the most commonly used locked states. But
+ the state '...' in the picture indicates that any string can be provided
+ as the state in the lock method.
+ </p><div class="figure"><a
id="execution.states"/><div class="figure-contents"><div
class="mediaobject" align="center"><img
src="images/ch04.execution.states.png" align="middle" alt="States
of an execution"/></div></div><p
class="title"><b>Figure 6.8. States of an
execution</b></p></div><br
class="figure-break"/><p>If an execution is locked, methods that change
the execution will
+ throw a PvmException and the message will reference the actual locking state.
+ Firing events, updating variables, updating priority and adding comments
+ are not considered to change an execution. Also creation and removal of child
+ executions are unchecked, which means that those methods can be invoked by
+ external API clients and node behaviour methods, even while the execution
+ is in a locked state.
+ </p><p>Make sure that comparisons between getState() and the STATE_*
constants
+ are done with .equals and not with '==' because if executions are loaded
+ from persistent storage, a new string is created instead of the constants.
+ </p><p>An execution implementation will be locked:
+ </p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul><li>When it is
ended</li><li>When it is suspended</li><li>During asynchronous
continuations</li></ul></div><p>Furthermore, locking can be used
by Activity implementations to make
+ executions read only during wait states hen responsibility for the execution is
+ transferred to an external entity such as:
+ </p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul><li>A human
task</li><li>A service invocation</li><li>A wait state that ends
when a scanner detects that a file appears</li></ul></div><p>In
these situations the strategy is that the external entity should get
+ full control over the execution because it wants to control what is allowed
+ and what not. To get that control, they lock the execution so that all interactions
+ have to go through the external entity.
+ </p><p>One of the main reasons to create external entities is that they
can live
+ on after the execution has already proceeded. For example, in case
+ of a service invocation, a timer could cause the execution to take the timeout
transition.
+ When the response arrives after the timeout, the service invocation entity should
+ make sure it doesn't signal the execution. So the service invocation can be
+ seen as a node instance (aka activity instance) and is unique for every execution
+ of the node.
+ </p><p>External entities themselves are responsible for managing the
execution
+ lock. If the timers and client applications are consequent in addressing the
+ external entities instead of the execution directly, then locking is in theory
+ unnecessary. It's up to the node behaviour implementations whether they want
+ to take the overhead of locking and unlocking.
+ </p></div></div><div class="chapter"
lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2
class="title"><a
id="variables"/>Chapter 7. Variables</h2></div></div></div><p>TODO</p></div><div
class="chapter" lang="en"><div
class="titlepage"><div><div><h2
class="title"><a
id="timers"/>Chapter 8. Timers</h2></div></div></div><p>TODO</p></div><div
class="chapter" lang="en"><div
class="titlepage"><div><div><h2
class="title"><a
id="asynchronouscontinuations"/>Chapter 9. Asynchronous
continuations</h2></div></div></div><p>TODO</p></div><div
class="chapter" lang="en"><div
class="titlepage"><div><div><h2
class="title"><a id="softwarelogging"/>Chapter 10. Software
logging</h2></div></div></div><div
class="toc"><dl><dt><span class="section"><a
href="#d0e1793">10.1.
Configuration</a></span></dt><dt><span
class="section"><a href="#d0e1812">10.2.
Categories</a></span></dt><dt><span
class="section"><a href="#d0e1825">10.3. JDK
logging</a></span></dt><dt><span
class="section"><a href="#!
d0e1855">10.4. Debugging
persistence</a></span></dt></dl></div><div
class="section" lang="en"><div
class="titlepage"><div><div><h2
class="title"><a
id="d0e1793"/>10.1. Configuration</h2></div></div></div><p>PVM
can use JDK logging (java.util.logging) or log4j. When the first message is
+ logged, PVM logging will make the selection with following procedure:
+ </p><div xmlns:rf="java:org.jboss.highlight.XhtmlRendererFactory"
class="orderedlist"><ol><li>If a <code
class="literal">logging.properties</code> resource is found
+ on the classpath (using the context classloader), then JDK logging will
+ be used and that file will be used to initialize the JDK logging.
+ </li><li>If log4j is found on the classpath, then log4j will be used.
+ The check for log4j will be done by checking availability of class
+ <code class="literal">org.apache.log4j.LogManager</code> with
the context classloader.
+ </li><li>If none of the above, JDK logging will be
used.</li></ol></div><p>
+ </p></div><div class="section"
lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2
class="title"><a
id="d0e1812"/>10.2. Categories</h2></div></div></div><p>The
PVM classes use their class name as the category for the logger.
+ </p><p>To have a basic understanding of what the PVM classes are doing,
+ turning on the <code class="literal">debug</code> level is
great. Level
+ <code class="literal">trace</code> might be spitting out too
much for that
+ purpose.
+ </p></div><div class="section"
lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2
class="title"><a id="d0e1825"/>10.3. JDK
logging</h2></div></div></div><p>In JDK logging, <code
class="literal">debug</code>maps to <code
class="literal">fine</code>
+ and <code class="literal">trace</code> maps to <code
class="literal">finest</code>.
+ Level <code class="literal">finer</code> is not used.
+ </p><p><code
class="literal">org.jbpm.pvm.internal.log.LogFormatter</code> is part
of
+ the pvm library and it can create a nice one-line output for log messages.
+ It also has a neat feature that creates a unique indentation per thread.
+ To configure it, this is a typical <code
class="literal">logging.properties</code>
+ </p><pre class="programlisting">handlers =
java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler
+java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler.level = FINEST
+java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler.formatter = org.jbpm.pvm.internal.log.LogFormatter
+
+# For example, set the com.xyz.foo logger to only log SEVERE messages:
+# com.xyz.foo.level = SEVERE
+
+.level = SEVERE
+org.jbpm.level=FINE
+org.jbpm.tx.level=FINE
+org.jbpm.pvm.internal.wire.level=FINE</pre></div><div
class="section" lang="en"><div
class="titlepage"><div><div><h2
class="title"><a id="d0e1855"/>10.4. Debugging
persistence</h2></div></div></div><p>When testing the
persistence, following logging configurations can be
+ valuable. Category <code
class="literal">org.hibernate.SQL</code> shows the SQL statement that
is executed
+ and category <code class="literal">org.hibernate.type</code>
shows the values of the parameters that are
+ set in the queries.
+ </p><pre class="programlisting">org.hibernate.SQL.level=FINEST
+org.hibernate.type.level=FINEST</pre><p>And in case you get a failed batch as
a cause in a hibernate exception,
+ you might want to set the batch size to 0 like this in the hibernate properties:
+ </p><pre class="programlisting">hibernate.jdbc.batch_size =
0</pre><p>Also in the hibernate properties, the following properties allow for
+ detailed logs of the SQL that hibernate spits out:</p><pre
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+hibernate.use_sql_comments =
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+
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+
+.reports ul {
+ padding:0em;
+ margin:0em;
+}
+
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+ font-size:small;
+ color:#000;
+ display:block;
+ border:1px solid #eee;
+ float:left;
+ padding-right:2em;
+ margin-right:1em;
+ margin-bottom:1em;
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+ margin:0em;
+ padding:0em;
+ margin-bottom:-2.2em;
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+ font-size:1.0em;
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+ width:12em;
+ display:block;
+ float:left;
+ margin:0em;
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+ padding:0em !important;
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+
+/* Progress Bar */
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+ padding:0em;
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+ background:url(../images/community/docbook/home.png) top left no-repeat;
+ padding:5px;
+ padding-left:28px;
+ font-size:1.2em;
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+ color:white;
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+ul.locale {list-style:none;}
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+ font-size:small;
+ color:#777;
+ width:31em;
+ display:block;
+ float:left;
+ margin-right:2em;
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+}
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+ul.locale li {
+ clear:both;
+ font-size:small;
+ color:#777;
+ display:block;
+}
+
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+ font-weight:normal;
+ color:#888;
+ font-size:.7em;
+}
+
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+ display:block;
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+ margin-bottom:0em;
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+
+ul.locale li {width:100%;}
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+ul.locale li div.progress {
+ float:left;
+ position:relative;
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+ margin:0em;
+ margin-bottom:-3em;
+}
+
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+
+li.total {
+ float:right;
+ max-width:16em;
+ padding:.5em;
+ margin:0 auto;
+ padding-top:.5em;
+ background-color:#f7f2d0;
+ font-size:1.3em !important;
+ color:#ccc !important;
+ margin-bottom:1em;
+ min-height:9.5em;
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+
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+ font-size:.8em;
+}
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+
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+ position:relative;
+ display:block;
+ top:-1.25em;
+ text-align:right;
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<modules>
<module>modules/api</module>
<module>modules/pvm</module>
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<module>modules/jpdl</module>
- <module>modules/cts</module>
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