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    New Features in jBPM5 Web Designer added!

    tsurdilovic

      Read more about it here (and watch the video!): http://blog.athico.com/2011/10/new-features-in-jbpm5-web-designer.html.

       

      Please provide any input you may have...thanks!

        • 1. Re: New Features in jBPM5 Web Designer added!
          salaboy21

          you rock man!

          • 2. Re: New Features in jBPM5 Web Designer added!
            jbride

            Hi,

               nice video presentation.   i attempted to follow along using your latest designer_1.0.0.056 ..... however i think I'm missing the 'jbpmmigration' button in the top toolbar ?  Any ideas why that might be the case ?

             

             

            jbpm5_designer_1.0.0.056.png

            • 3. Re: New Features in jBPM5 Web Designer added!
              jbride

              sorry ... the screenshot above came out much smaller once posted to this forum.  the pop-up says :  Version:  1.0.0.056

              • 4. Re: New Features in jBPM5 Web Designer added!
                mnorsic

                Hi Tihomir,

                this is awesome!

                 

                Based on what I've seen, I have a couple of questions:

                1. is it possible to define my own service repository, beside the standard one? For example, I have to create my own private service tasks with a business logic embedded into it, or custom service tasks that call an external (private) web service. It would be nice to have some sort of service repository agent where one can define set of URLs that point to custom service repositories

                2. where do you run service repository? Can we use JCR to store service definitions, or it is meant to be used from your site only?

                3. what about custom editors for service processes? I know that task variables are shown on the properties palette (on the right side of Designer), however, is there an option to create my own custom editor? I have seen on this forum questions about custom editors but they are meant to be used as an extension to Eclipse plugin

                 

                Thanks,

                Miljenko

                • 5. Re: New Features in jBPM5 Web Designer added!
                  jbride

                  please disregard.  I upgraded to drools-guvnor-5.3.0.CR1.war with the latest designer and am now have all of the latest designer functionality.

                  • 6. Re: New Features in jBPM5 Web Designer added!
                    tsurdilovic

                    Jeffrey, great news! I am glad you have it up and running.

                    • 7. Re: New Features in jBPM5 Web Designer added!
                      tsurdilovic

                      Hi Miljenko,

                       

                      1. is it possible to define my own service repository, beside the standard one? For example, I have to create my own private service tasks with a business logic embedded into it, or custom service tasks that call an external (private) web service. It would be nice to have some sort of service repository agent where one can define set of URLs that point to custom service repositories

                       

                      The location of the repository is configurable via $designer.war/profiles/jbpm.xml, there you will see on the bottom:

                       

                      <servicerepository location="http://people.redhat.com/kverlaen/repository"/>

                       

                      As long as your repository has the same structure for assets as the jBPM one currently things should work fine. If your repository has a different structure, then having pluggable "repository handlers" would be nice to have, but there aren't any now. Would be a nice Jira if you want to raise one.

                       

                      2. where do you run service repository? Can we use JCR to store service definitions, or it is meant to be used from your site only?

                       

                      The jBPM service repository currently lives in http://people.redhat.com/kverlaen/repository. This is how Kris configured it. Remember this is all pretty new stuff, so your imputs are very valuable to have. I think again raising a Jira is the best way to get your good ideas implemented for the next releases.

                       

                      3. what about custom editors for service processes? I know that task variables are shown on the properties palette (on the right side of Designer), however, is there an option to create my own custom editor? I have seen on this forum questions about custom editors but they are meant to be used as an extension to Eclipse plugin.

                       

                      Right now we don't have that ability as really the input/output parameters of the task translate into input/output data associations of the Task node.

                      This would be a nice things for the community to contribute

                       

                      Thanks!

                      • 8. Re: New Features in jBPM5 Web Designer added!
                        mnorsic

                        Hi Tihomir,

                         

                        thanks for the prompt reply! I'm going to raise a Jira issue, hope to find some spare time to contribute.

                        Repository handlers are not what I meant: it's just that I cannot see the structure behind a URL that Kris configured, because opening a URL shows a help for particular handler. I have tried to create service repository on my local disk but failed, because obviously I don't use the same structure and don't have proper artifacts.

                         

                        As for custom editors, I think that sooner or later we are going to need one. For example, I might create a rich Email service handler, that sends e-mail in HTML format. It would be nice to integrate TinyMCE or CKEditor for that purpose into a custom service task editor...

                        I don't know does it make sense, but I'll open Jira issue for that also.

                         

                        Thanks,

                        Miljenko

                        • 9. Re: New Features in jBPM5 Web Designer added!
                          mnorsic

                          BTW, I forgot to ask: right now Designer supports only one service repository?

                          • 10. Re: New Features in jBPM5 Web Designer added!
                            tsurdilovic

                            >> it's just that I cannot see the structure behind a URL that Kris configured << yes, we will add this to the documentation as soon as possible. Just to give you one example tho, let's say you have a service node called MyServiceNode, the structure currently is simple:

                             

                            $repo-url/MyServiceNode

                            $repo-url/MyServiceNode/MyServiceNode.wid

                            $repo-url/MyServiceNode/myservicenodeicon.gif/png/whatever

                             

                            the .wid file defines the name of the icon.

                             

                             

                            Re: Custom Editor - would be a really nice feature to have..completely agree with you

                             

                            >> right now Designer supports only one service repository? << Yes.

                            • 11. Re: New Features in jBPM5 Web Designer added!
                              mnorsic

                              Hi Tihomir,

                               

                              thank you very much!

                               

                              Miljenko

                              • 12. Re: New Features in jBPM5 Web Designer added!
                                paulcoronel

                                Hi,

                                 

                                is there a snapshot version for jboss 7?

                                 

                                Thank you

                                • 13. Re: New Features in jBPM5 Web Designer added!
                                  tsurdilovic

                                  Hi Paul, it is now http://people.redhat.com/tsurdilo/oryx/latest/

                                   

                                  Hope this helps.

                                  • 14. Re: New Features in jBPM5 Web Designer added!
                                    paulcoronel

                                    Dear Tihomir,

                                     

                                    thanks for your help!

                                     

                                    Paul

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