Graphical eclipse editor for jBPM 4.3?

[achimh]

Hi everyone,

we just tried to update from jBPM 4.2 to jBPM 4.3 because we have been waiting for drools support in jBPM. We used the jBPM JPDL4 Editor included in the JBoss Tools with Eclipse 3.5 before and updated it as the RC1 has been released a few days ago. Unfortunately it seems that <rules-decision> tags have no graphical output in the editor. Is there another eclipse-based editor that is able to display the improvements of jbpm 4.3 or how do you handle the (graphically) unsupported JPDL-elements?

Thanks for your help!

[kukeltje]

Unfortunately it seems that <rules-decision> tags have no graphical output in the editor. Is there another eclipse-based editor that is able to display the improvements of jbpm 4.3 or how do you handle the (graphically) unsupported JPDL-elements?

Unfortunately not

how do you handle the (graphically) unsupported JPDL-elements?

Hmmm... good question. Normally the basic element would be supported visually, you'd just not be able to set all properties etc via menus. If it really is not supported, you could download the source of the GPD and add basic support for it yourself.

What you could do is accept an invalid xml and make them temporary into e.g. a state with incorrect child elements/attributes to have them displayed at least.

[camunda]

Should be imporved in the GPD in my oppinion, to show every unknown activity type as plain basic element in the graphical process diagram...

[tom.baeyens]

Koen told me that in his current design, recognizing unknown tags as unknown activities is not that trivial.  That is why that feature has not been started upon.  Hopefully we can get there soon.

[koen.aers]

To represent unknown tags as nodes is probably possible but indeed not so trivial. But the rules-decision is rendered in the latest build of the plugin that comes with the 4.3 download.

Hope this helps,

Koen

[rafael_jboss]

Does it read BPMN2.0? I created a diagram on Signavio 3.6.5, exported to XML and wasn't successful importing it on the eclipse plugin.

[koen.aers]

No, it doesn't read BPMN 2.0.

Cheers,

Koen