Workflow patterns supported by jBPM

[yadavvijay]

Hi

I am trying to find out information about workflow patterns supported by jBPM but i cant get success.
Can anybody please give me the answers of following questions.

1. Is jBPM supports all the workflow patterns (www.workflowpatterns.com) ?
2. if no then which are patterns not supported by jBPM.

Thanks
Vijay

[icyjamie]

See testcases in the source code... (yes: this is open source, and the source is your friend :-))

There is a package org.jbpm.jpdl.patterns testing all workflow patterns, as mentioned on www.workflowpatterns.com, and apart from milestone, they all succeed. This does not mean that jbpm wf pattern support is out-of-the-box and guaranteed, but it's a good start.

[sudhakartv]

Where can i find this package org.jbpm.jpdl.patterns ?I have downloded jbpm3.0.zip

I have package like this: org.jbpm.jpdl.convert,exe,par,xml


Sudhakar

[icyjamie]

I use 3.0.1, maybe it's in there

[icyjamie]

It's also in 3.0 (I checked), it's under src/java.jbpm.test

And from there on, you have the package structure

If you import the whole project in eclipse, you see it directly. (If you don't use eclipse, I guess it is still easy to import everything)

[sudhakartv]

Thanks. I found it and able to run test case in WSAD. I am very new to work flow. We are trying to use jbpm for only process definitions as we already have a workflow engg. in place. So our part will be creating processdefinitions and excute them(process of excution we will call work flow APIs for creating task etc.).

As I have to concentrate on creating process definition files(I guess i have to create a XML file for this) do u have any suggestion where should i concentrate?. What tools i have to use.U suggested me to use Graphic desimer , but it wonly works with Eclips. I don;t know how to configure with WSAD. Do I need to lern amy languge to create process files manually ?. Any suggestions or idea will be appreciated

Thanks
Sudhakar

[koen.aers]

Sudhakar,

The easiest way to create processdefinitions is really to use the GPD. Yes it does not work with WSAD, but Eclipse is open source and freely downloadable, so I don't get the point why you are anxious to use it alongside your WSAD installation... But if you really want it, you *can* use vi or notepad or any xml- or texteditor to create the processdefinition.xml file.

Regards,
Koen

[sudhakartv]

Koen,

I have downloded eclipse-SDK3.1-winzip.zip file and jbossIDE-1.4.1-e30.zip. I think after install eclipse i can copy plugins directory from the jbosssIDE zip file in to eclipse plugins directory to wrok with GPD tool right?.


-Sudhakar

[sudhakartv]

Ok. I have installed Eclipse and its plugins from JbossIDE. Could you please tell me how to run the GPD tool ?

Sudhakar

[kukeltje]

the gpd tool is not 'run'. If it is installed (see the docs for that) you can create a new project in the normal way. If certain files in this process project are opened (e.g. the processdefinition.xml) you can see the editor at work.