ProcessInstance vs. Execution

[brittm]

At some point in the past I recall there was an intent to begin calling ProcessInstances 'Executions'. Is that naming change still the intent, or has the idea been dropped?

-Britt

[kukeltje]

Britt,

It will not change for jBPM 3.3. The discussion about this is being held in the pvm forum. So if it changes, it changes for jBPM 4.0. Might be that some (all?) backwardscompatibility will be available.

[kukeltje]

http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&t=109359

[brittm]

Thanks Ronald. Now I have another forum I have to read from the beginning. ;-)

[kukeltje]

I've 'pinged' Tom to reply on this specific topic, but no response yet.

[tom.baeyens]

processinstance and token will be merged into a class called execution in jpdl 4. on the PVM-level, only execution will exist. it might be that specific process languages like jPDL introduce a JpdlProcessInstance and a JpdlExecution. in which case JpdlProcessInstance would inherit from JpdlExecution.

jpdl 3.x will remain token / process instance as is.