[jbosstools-issues] [JBoss JIRA] Commented: (JBIDE-2237) BPMN plugin

[Tom Baeyens (JIRA)]

    [ http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBIDE-2237?page=comments#action_12419028 ] 
            
Tom Baeyens commented on JBIDE-2237:
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in a first iteration.  it would already be great if we could generate a jPDL process skeleton from a BPMN process.  it doesn't have to be complete.  jPDL to BPMN is not that important.  that leads to round-tripping between disparate analysis and implementation models, which is fundamentally a broken way of developing software.

a first step would be that the graph model would be exported from BPMN to jPDL.  just the nodes and transitions.  you can use node type "node" for this, i think.

Koen, this brings up the issue of changing node types.  BPMN activities will be converted to "node"s and then in the jPDL editor, the developer can change the node type.   Is that a strategy that makes sense to you ?  Is it hard to add it to jPDL 4 ?

> BPMN plugin
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>                 Key: JBIDE-2237
>                 URL: http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBIDE-2237
>             Project: Tools (JBoss Tools)
>          Issue Type: Task
>          Components: jbpm
>            Reporter: Tom Baeyens
>         Assigned To: Marshall Culpepper
>             Fix For: 3.0.0.alpha
>
>         Attachments: stp-bpmn-pieces-jbt.txt, stp-bpmn-pieces-v2.txt, stp-bpmn-pieces.txt
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> The STP BPMN modeller http://www.eclipse.org/stp/bpmn/ should be bundled with the jPDL process designer.
> The idea is that business analysts will be able to create BPMN diagrams and save them in the default (i believe it is XMI) file format.  
> The first goal would be that we're able to build that plugin and take it for a test ride. 
> The next step could be to add an "Export to jPDL" feature to that BPMN designer.  That would then create a jPDL skeleton process that has to be further edited in the GPD (jPDL editor plugin)

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