[Design of JBoss jBPM] - Re: BPMN in jbpm4
by camunda
Hi all!
I am very glad to hear that the direction is to go without spec violations :-)
I think first go for jbpm 4 GA and then see what BPMN 2.0 and executable BPMN really brings. I could image that splitting jbpm into 2 languages (jPDL and xBPMN) could make sense, but we will see... For marketing it is obviously a good move to support BPMN, I also got some interested feedback on jbpm 4 supporting it. This could really boost the project further (I hope).
And I would appreciate a blog post from Tom on the thoughts he mentioned as well :-)
For the detail problems: Implementing outgoing XOR by using conditional flows is a valid option. This also has the advantage, that the default flow is clearly marks (something I miss in jbpm 3).
As far as I know graphical extensions are limited to the attached data objects and additional icons in activities. But I wouldn't have a problem with it, if the extensions are clearly different from BPMN standard. The only downside of it is, that the diagram couldn't be transfered to another tool, but this isn't possible anyway and not targeted by jbpm I think.
Cheers
Bernd
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