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

[koen.aers@jboss.com]

Well, finally a reaction from me...

Sorry guys, I was strolling around in Yosemite National Park this weekend and had to go to the San Francisco Giants - New York Mets baseball game with the JBoss marketing girls yesterday evening ;-))

So it seems that everyone agrees... except for me... 

I definitely see the value of keeping the information in one file. And if that is the way to go, I would strongly opt for a separate section with graphical information. I gave the example with the different bendpoint tags and with the coloring information but the problem stretches further than that. It could e.g. contain a textual note graphical element that is completely unrelated to any of the jpdl constructs, but has only a relationship with the graphical information. All in all it boils down to the fact that some of the graphical information is not related at all to the business infromation and the other way round. So keeping the information in two separate sections seems appropriate to me. Whatever you may think and how good the tool in the future may become, the processdefinition.xml file will be read by humans, so we should make this not too difficult.

Regards,
Koen


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