Bug 803999 - Eclipse editor is not BPMN2 conformant
Summary: Eclipse editor is not BPMN2 conformant
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: JBoss Enterprise BRMS Platform 5
Classification: JBoss
Component: Tooling (JBDS)
Version: BRMS 5.3.0.GA
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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medium
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Assignee: John Graham
QA Contact: Tomas Schlosser
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-03-16 09:34 UTC by Tomas Schlosser
Modified: 2012-11-07 15:30 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2012-11-07 15:30:19 UTC
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Description Tomas Schlosser 2012-03-16 09:34:29 UTC
Description of problem:
BPMN2 specifies (among other things) how the nodes should be drawn. The editor in eclipse does not respect these requirements. This may cause confusion when customers come from Guvnor web-based editor to JBDS and vice versa.

Comment 1 Tomas Schlosser 2012-03-16 10:23:21 UTC
I created a list of problems following the BPMN2 specification:
* The marker for a Task that is a multi-instance MUST be a set of three vertical lines. (there is nothing in eclipse)
* A Business Rule Task is a rounded corner rectangle that MUST be drawn with a single thin line and includes a marker that distinguishes the shape from other Task types. (there is no mark in eclipse)

Also the markers are different (but I don't know whether that is a part of specification) - user task, script task, timer node, signal node.

Nodes that are not supported by eclipse editor are (naturally) not drawn correctly. This category contains (but is not limited to): different types of start/end/intermediate/boundary events, ad-hoc processes, swimlanes.

Comment 3 Kris Verlaenen 2012-11-07 15:30:19 UTC
We're not planning to improve the "old" eclipse process editor (Drools Flow / RuleFlow) anymore and this will be addressed in the new Eclipse BPMN2 modeler.  So closing this one as won't fix.


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