[bpel-dev] Fwd: BPEL designer Extension

[Neto <waldemar.neto@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All,

Well, I'll explain with more details. Maybe you can say if I'm in the right way. 

I need to create a new Pick. This new Pick is the same as the BPEL Pick, but this NewPick has an reference for an element that I created. 

I modeled it as:

• NewPick extends from Pick and ExtensionActivity
• NewPick has an EReference for my new element "NewEvent"

I'm having problems to serialize and de-serialize it. I'm trying to implement a xml2newEvent, and newEvent2xml (similar to the activity2xml and xml2activity in BPELReader and BPELWriter). Is this the best way or should I create a completely new activity with the same elements as Pick and my new element (regarding the design, it is terrible)?

Did Nobody create before a ExtensionActivity based on other activities?

Any tip is welcome. =)

Nice wishes,

Neto

On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Bob Brodt <bbrodt@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Neto,

Are you talking about creating new BPEL activities that are outside the WS-BPEL 2.0 spec? I'm afraid you're on your own for this one ;) but the first thing you need to do is become familiar with the EMF model (ecore and genmodel), then add your activity definitions to that and regenerate the interface and implementation files. Be careful though, the implementations have been heavily modified and you will need to make sure that you add the right comments so that the changes aren't overwritten.

Good luck and let us know how it works out.

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Robert ("Bob") Brodt
Senior Software Engineer, JBoss Riftsaw
JBoss by Red Hat

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Hi Bob Brodt,

Thank you very much. I have another doubt, I have to extend the Pick, in order to make it listens another type of "event" (not only OnMessage and OnAlarm). Has somebody some idea how I can do it?

Neto

On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 9:11 PM, Bob Brodt <bbrodt@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Neto,

I'm working on updating the extension samples to include variable references (in SimpleSampleActivity) and variable declarations (SimpleStructuredActivity). This will include property sheets. Should be done before the end of this week - I'll let you know when it's ready...

_______________________________________
Robert ("Bob") Brodt
Senior Software Engineer, JBoss Riftsaw
JBoss by Red Hat

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Hi all,

I'm starting to develop a BPEL designer extension. The article about the Extensions is great, as well as the examples in the repository. My extension now can deal with new internal activities and primitive type attributes. However, I'm facing many problems to make relationships with other BPEL elements (for instance, my new element has a relationship with Variable). I could implement the serialization and the de-serialization of them (I think, I didn't test), however, the UI able to choose a variable is really hard to develop. I could see that this feature for Invoke (inputVariable and outputVariable), reply, onMessage, etc. is done by the class InvokeVariableSection.I spent 2 days trying to understand how this class works, but unfortunately, I was not able. 

Somebody knows another BPEL designer extension where I could see more examples of how to implement extensions for BPEL designer?

Thanks in advance,

Neto

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