Hi all,
as Florian pointed out, BPMN2 does include an interesting concept
for managing the visual representation named Diagram Interchange which is not
too different from our own new view concept. It can be found on pages 370ff. DI
consists of a view meta-model that references the elements in the domain
meta-model.
Their View concept corresponds basically to our
GraphicalElement. I’ve found two features that may also be helpful in our
context:
1. Bendpoints for edges (allow to manually change the routing of
edges)
2. Custom styles: It is possible to store an arbitrary number of
name/value entries for each object in each view that can be accessed freely.
Maybe helpful if e.g. Swimlane view (or others) requires properties additional
to x/y/width/height
Also, they define the syntax of their views using a
ViewDefinition but I think this would be overkill for what we actually need.
Regards,
Chris
Von:
jwt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jwt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] Im Auftrag
von Florian Lautenbacher
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 30. April 2009 11:27
An: 'Java Workflow Toolbox'
Betreff: [jwt-dev] Upcoming BPMN2 standard
the
upcoming version of the Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) standard in
version 2.0 will probably be interesting for most of you. It's not finalized
yet, but you can already find a draft version at the OMG site at http://www.omg.org/docs/bmi/09-04-01.
This is also quite important for our new BPMN view, so please have a look at
it!