Hi All,
We had option to extend/customize task instance in 3.x to add our own attributes - Something like:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE hibernate-mapping PUBLIC
"-//Hibernate/Hibernate Mapping DTD 3.0//EN"
"http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/hibernate-mapping-3.0.dtd">
<hibernate-mapping auto-import="false" default-access="field">
<subclass namename="com.navteq.jbpm.extensions.AssignableTaskInstance"
extends="org.jbpm.taskmgmt.exe.TaskInstance"
discriminator-value="A">
<list name="assignees" cascade="all" >
<key column="TASKINSTANCE_" />
<index column="TASKINSTANCEINDEX_"/>
<one-to-many class="com.navteq.jbpm.extensions.Assignee" />
</list>
</subclass>
</hibernate-mapping>
Reference: http://www.infoq.com/articles/jBPM-user-interaction-patterns
We also had option to control automatic task creation in task-node using create-tasks="false"
We care currently using JBPM 4.3