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Hi Florian,

sorry yes I meant the Java magazin.

regards
ralph

Florian Lautenbacher schrieb: 
Hi Ralph,

probably you've read the SAP-BPMN article in the Java magazine? What they
have in place is really cool: similarly the same ideas as in JWT, but much
more powerful, quite easy to handle, etc. I'm now aware of a BPMN article in
the Eclipse magazine, but maybe I missed it.

Right now there are no plans for JWT to join the STP BPMN project. But we
realize the need of companies who request BPMN 2.0 (already now, but the
standard is not finalized yet). That's why our next steps will be to adapt
our modeling tool towards BPMN2. Whether we will thereby work together with
the STP team, BonitaSoft, JBoss or completely alone is still open.

Best regards,

Florian



-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Ralph Soika [mailto:Ralph.Soika@xxxxxxxxx] 
Gesendet: 17 August 2009 09:57
An: Florian Lautenbacher
Cc: 'Java Workflow Toolbox'
Betreff: Re: AW: Extending the BPMN Modeler with a custom plugin

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
Message-ID: <4A87D6F0.1050909@xxxxxxxxx>
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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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