Designer Eclipse Plugin

[marcosdutto]

I am working with the eclipse plugin of JBPM for designing process and i am making some changes to adapt it to my business. I saw that you have 2 eclipse designers: Drools Eclipse Plugin and, the newest, BPMN2-Modeler. And i have to decide which one to use. I tested both and found many errors in BPMN2-Modeler and i noticed that the documentation is not up to date with the designer. Before deciding to use Drools Eclipse Plugin (more stable) I am interested to know which designer you are planning to improve in the future? Or if your planning to improve both which one you would recommend to use?

Thanks in advance,

Marcos Dutto

[cdsosi]

Hello,

In my opinion you should use eclipse BPMN2-Modeler as it supports many more BPMN 2.0 functionnalities, however some may not be yet handled by jBPM engine, make some basic processes to test...

I used both of them on few processes and the BPMN2-Modeler is nicer when modeling to my mind.

I think this BPMN2-Modeler will be the one to use in the future under eclipse. Moreover it is mentionned in 5.3.0 user documentation (http://docs.jboss.org/jbpm/v5.3/userguide/ch.eclipse-bpmn-plugin.html =>  "We are working on a new BPMN 2.0 Eclipse editor").

I posted few days ago a similar question about the available designers maybe you could have a look : https://community.jboss.org/message/751628

HTH