question on decision

[ajanz]

i found this example

<decision name=“Customer Rank ?�>
<transition to=“Send expensive gift�>
<condition expression=“#{customer.rank > 10}�
/>
</transition>
<transition to=“Send cheap gift�>
<condition expression=“#{customer.rank > 5}� />
</transition>
<transition to=“Check payments� />
</decision>

Customer is a simple bean with getRank();

but how does this java bean and the processinstance come together?

[kukeltje]

I'd suggest you look at the testcases in the source as well. btw, it is no java bean... it is a process variable

[kukeltje]

but this processvariable can be a serializable javaclass

[ajanz]

thank you. looked at the test cases.

i thought a process variable could only be a primitve datatype not a java class...

[kukeltje]

no, everything that is serializable can be the type of processvariable.

Most of the time you do not want to put to much of your domain model in the jBPM database though.