1 Reply Latest reply on May 28, 2006 3:25 AM by hosierdm

Actions and Tasks

haninaguib May 27, 2006 3:04 PM

I just started looking at jBPM and was wondering what is the difference between a task and an action.
Also what is the difference between an action assigned to a node transition (event) and one assigned to a node's leave-node.

Thanks,
Hani

1. Re: Actions and Tasks

hosierdm May 28, 2006 3:25 AM (in response to haninaguib)

You should read these two sections of the User Guide to get a feeling for the differences bewteen Tasks and Actions:
http://docs.jboss.org/jbpm/v3/userguide/processmodelling.html#actions
http://docs.jboss.org/jbpm/v3/userguide/taskmanagement.html#tasks

As far as your second question, there can be many transitions leaving a given node. So you could assign an action on the leave-node event that you want to happen, regardless of which transition is taken. Then you could take transition specific action depending on which transition is traversed from the node. I hope that helps.

-David
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