[jboss-dev-forums] [Design of JBoss jBPM] - Improvig timer

[camunda]

Hi!

I was at a customer last week and they implement an improved timer for themselves. And I saw that requirement already many times, normally it was solved by own written ActionHandler. But to have an advanced timer would be even nicer!

I am not sure if it gets already more powerful with the PVM?

Here the requirements: They want the timer to be due on some specific time on a certain day. The hacked the Calendar and can now configure the timer like this:


  | <timer name="uniquetimername1" duedate="07.11.2007-17:32:00 timestamp" transition="toNextNodeAfterTimer"></timer>
  | 

Maybe this can be easily improved to

  | <timer name="xyz" duedate="today+1-17:32:00 timestamp" transition="whatever"></timer>
  | 

with the new unit, they can just parse the duedate differently. This apporach is OK, but has the weekness, that it cannot really be combined with the business calender (e.g. 3 business days, but 09:00).

If we can agree on a good format to support this, they would give me the appropriate code so I can commit it. But what format?

I think best solution would be to add an attribute, so we get


  | <timer name="xyz" duedate="1 business day" time-constraint=">19:00" date-constraint="=20.11.2007" transition="whatever"></timer>
  | 

By the way: duedate and the new attributes should be able to read expression language.

Thought?

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