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- From: Ralph Soika <Ralph.Soika@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 09:57:26 +0200
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Hi Florian,
thanks for you reply.
I read the article about BPMN in the current eclipse magazin and thought
"why not extending the SOA BPMN Modeler plugin?"
We use BPMN in most customers projects in conjunction with our Imixs
Modeler. And BPMN seems really be something what customers can follow
very easy. So why not integrating directly into a BPMN Modeler.
For me as an underdog concerning the Eclipse Foundation its not easy to
get the overlook which plugins are connected together. I read about that
your JWT will maybe join the SOA BPMN Project? But its really hard to
get the overview with all the plugins and development during the Eclispe
Ganymede / Galileo.
As I am mainly focusing on developing a JEE based Workflow System (and
the current version becomes really cool -
http://workflow.imixs.org/doc/jee/) I can not investigate to much time
in eclipse development :-(
So this is the reason why I am still watching and did not start a new
Implementation of the Imixs Modeler yet.
So what did you think about the cohesion between SOA BPMN project and
the JWT Project?
best regards
Ralph
Florian Lautenbacher schrieb:
Hi Ralph,
I've seen your message to the STP mailing list. I know that our project JWT
still can't support you with a BPMN modeler (which is something we aim to
include in the middle-term), but after the discussion you and I had a few
month ago, we added your requirement to our TODO-list and came up with a
mechanism to add additional properties, additional windows, extending the
metamodel, etc. just as you requested in your email to Antoine.
The next German-speaking Eclipse magazine will include an article how
exactly this works in JWT, so I hope this might be interesting for you. If
you like, then I can send you a draft version of the article directly (but
I'm not allowed to send it to the mailing list due to copyright terms).
If we can support you in any other way, just let us know.
Best regards,
Florian
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Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2009 11:52:48 +0200
From: Ralph Soika <Ralph.Soika@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [stp-dev] Extending the BPMN Modeler with a custom plugin
To: stp-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
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Hi,
I have a question about the right way to extend the BPMN Modeler. I
developed a Eclipse based Workflow Modeler for our Open Source Workflow
System "Imixs Workflow" about the last 4 years.
This eclipse plugin is for modeling workflow models to be processed by the
Imixs Worklfow System. The model is simple but handles a lot of technical
application specific attributes.
http://workflow.imixs.org/doc/modeler/
http://www.imixs.com/documentation/ix_modeler.nsf
Now I think its time to integrate our modeling tool into the BPMN Modeler.
As BPMN fullfills in general all requirements for modeling workflows it
should be doable to integrate the technical requirements for the Imixs
Workflow to the bpmn plugin.
But to start I need a little bit help from you.
As you can see in this screenshot
http://www-02.imixs.com:8081/roller/imixsworkflow/resource/ix-modeler/eclips
e_2-6_02.gif
we provide a lot of "org.eclipse.ui.views.properties.tabbed.propertyTabs"
My goal is to obtain these classes. What I whant to do is to add a new
visual element which should occur on the outgoingEdge from a bpmn Activity.
When the user selects this element the Imixs Propety Tabs should be
available in the property view. So the user can add the technical
informations for the Imxis Workflow System to a specific edge outgoing from
an activity.
How is it possible to extend the behavior of an sequenceEdge element in a
way that it includes an additional visual element and that the property Tabs
are extended by a new tab group where I can place my existing tabs?
Thanks for any help
Ralph
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