[jboss-dev-forums] [Design of JBoss jBPM] - Re: including graphical information in the process definitio

[david.lloyd@jboss.com]

Ah, namespaced attributes - a great idea, I never even thought of it.  However I'm not a big fan of squeezing many data items into a single attribute.  I think that for multiple data items we'd still need separate attributes.

But I could totally see something like this (note that I put <gpd:bendpoint> right within  - there's no need to add another level of nesting that I can see):


  | <process-definition 
  |      xmlns="urn:jbpm.org:jpdl-3.2"
  |      xmlns:gpd="urn:jbpm.org:jpdl-gpd-3.2"
  |      name="simple"
  |      gpd:width="469" gpd:height="439">
  |    <start-state name="start" gpd:x="150" gpd:y="25" gpd:width="140" gpd:height="40">
  |       <transition name="to_state" to="first">
  |          <gpd:bendpoint x="23" y="45"/>
  |          <gpd:bendpoint x="45" y="67"/>
  |          <gpd:bendpoint x="22" y="11"/>
  |          <action name="action" class="com.sample.action.MessageActionHandler">
  |             <message>Going to the first state!</message>
  |          </action>
  |       </transition>
  |    </start-state>
  |    <state name="first" gpd:x="150" gpd:y="125" gpd:width="140" gpd:height="40">
  |       <transition name="to_end" to="end">
  | .... and so on ....
  | 

I don't think separate sections are a good idea.  This is XML, I mean we're not talking rocket science here.

In addition, forms.xml could (and should, in my opinion) be merged in - the form declarations can go right with the task node declarations.  If it were me I'd even merge in the task forms themselves (they are XHTML after all), though I think that might be pushing the limits of popular acceptance. :-)


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