[jboss-dev-forums] [Design of JBoss jBPM] - Re: extending form / task functionality

[cocampo]

"kukeltje" wrote : We then have the combination of direct sequential execution of tasks and real pageflows separated from the processdefinition. 
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  | If at least we (you and I) have these requirements, I bet they are interesting engouh for others as well. I'll file a jira issue to develop this functionality in jBPM 

I don't know about others, but it seems to me this could be a really nice feature to have, since most processes (e.g. people executing processes) involve some kind of GUI.

Let me explain further on this subject: regarding BPM, business process modeling and applications development, I tend to think in terms of processes and not applications (kind of 'process driven development'); this way, processes need applications, or even fine-grained pieces of an application (maybe just a single page for a given task). 

If we had this feature in jBPM, we would have an 'integrated' view of our model, considering the process by itself, along with people (roles), and applications (JSF/Facelets pages). Somehow, jBPM engine should be able to figure it out what path to follow, given the process definition, and using process instance variables state. This way, you won't have to embbed any "navigation" logic in your Java code (not even in faces-config files), since this would be handled by the jBPM engine.

What do you think on this?.

Regards.

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