Hi,
I would just like to add my two cents to
Philipp’s suggestion. Adding information about partners, namespaces, etc.
to the process map is a great idea until you get users who develop really large
workflows with hundreds of activities and dozens of partners. To cater for such
cases, you would need to figure out how to represent this information without
leading to a (further) explosion of the graphical representation and making the
information easily accessible at the same time; this could be a tough one.
An alternative might be to have a tabbed
editor providing an overview page that contains representations about partners,
global variables and namespaces. This page can then also allow you to explore
each of these elements in more detail. An activity figure or its properties
view should then provide you a link to these elements (i.e. partner, variables)
for convenience. That’s just one possible idea though and I am sure there
are many other ways.
Regards,
-- Bruno
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Hi,
One
of the concerns I heard about the BPEL designer is that there is not enough
information displayed in the canvas of the editor.
http://philipptiedt.blogspot.com/2006/02/quick-view-on-bpel-designer.html#links
Looking
at other visual editors (e.g. Class diagramm editor) you will find more details
displayed in the figures which gives you a more detailed insight. I was just
wondering if this could be of any value for the BPEL editor as well.
I
could imagine having the partner of an invoke activity displayed in the figure
as well as displaying the interface for recieve and reply. Propbably this would
be customizable, so the user could decide which details they actually want to
see and which should be hidden. Any more ideas? Is anything planed like that?
Regards,
-philipp
Mit
freundlichen Grüßen / Best regards
- Philipp Tiedt
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