Don't know about version 5.0, but from the 5.2 documentation I've been reading ...

Section 5.1.3 of the User's Guide seems to have the dynamic process creation covered.

http://docs.jboss.org/jbpm/v5.2/userguide/ch05.html#d0e783

There is not a "template" construct as such, however, there are reusable sub-processes.

http://docs.jboss.org/jbpm/v5.2/userguide/ch05.html#d0e1303

/Steve.

Atul:

I have absolutly no idea if this will be useful or not - but for what it's worth, I found the following fragment of code under a samples package.

I've hilighted the lines that may help.

package org.jbpm.bpmn2;

import org.drools.KnowledgeBase;
import org.drools.builder.KnowledgeBuilder;
import org.drools.builder.KnowledgeBuilderFactory;
import org.drools.builder.ResourceType;
import org.drools.io.ResourceFactory;
import org.drools.runtime.StatefulKnowledgeSession;
import org.jbpm.bpmn2.xml.XmlBPMNProcessDumper;
import org.jbpm.ruleflow.core.RuleFlowProcess;
import org.jbpm.ruleflow.core.RuleFlowProcessFactory;

public class ProcessFactoryTest extends JbpmJUnitTestCase {

public void testProcessFactory() {
  RuleFlowProcessFactory factory = RuleFlowProcessFactory.createProcess("org.jbpm.process");
  factory
   // header
   .name("My process").packageName("org.jbpm")
   // nodes
   .startNode(1).name("Start").done()
   .actionNode(2).name("Action")
    .action("java", "System.out.println(\"Action\");").done()
   .endNode(3).name("End").done()
   // connections
   .connection(1, 2)
   .connection(2, 3);
  RuleFlowProcess process = factory.validate().getProcess();
  KnowledgeBuilder kbuilder = KnowledgeBuilderFactory.newKnowledgeBuilder();
  kbuilder.add(
      ResourceFactory.newByteArrayResource(
           XmlBPMNProcessDumper.INSTANCE.dump(process).getBytes()),
      ResourceType.BPMN2);
  KnowledgeBase kbase = kbuilder.newKnowledgeBase();
  StatefulKnowledgeSession ksession = kbase.newStatefulKnowledgeSession();
  ksession.startProcess("org.jbpm.process");
  }

}

Please let me know how this goes.

If it works then it needs to be included in the User's Guide (or perhaps an equivalent that uses a nice utility method that keeps some of the noise out of the picture).

Cheers, Steve.

Atul:

Thank you for the confirmation.

We now have four problems to deal with:

1. the User Guide is incomplete and someone needs to take care of updating things to include the additional code
2. the published APIs do not include any of the org.jbpm.** content
3. the quality of org.jbpm package, class, and method documentation is not production ready
4. and probably a roadmap dealing with documentation

Cheers, Steve.