[stp-dev] Goodies for BPMN

["Antoine Toulme" <antoine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am late for a good headline about Valentine's Day...

We have some cool things just committed in the BPMN modeler.

I have done a lengthy blog post[0] that will propagated to Planet Eclipse[1] and the SOA Tools blog[2].

Here is a summary for the pine aficionados (my blog post has nice pictures in it):

Some semantic changes

• Associations can target sequence and messaging edges.

At the semantic level only. We are actively working on making it possible to connect them in the diagram.

• Pools hold messaging edges.

We haven't worked on making it possible in the editor as well, but the semantic model accepts those now.

Support for BPMN 1.1

We are heading for basic support of BPMN 1.1. You can deactivate it in the BPMN Diagrams preference page.

• Signal events

They really don't look good yet, and we are looking for help on that[3]


• The look and feel of shapes is BPMN 1.1 compliant
  

• Routing of sequence edges with gateways has drastically improved.

More

• We have added the link and multiple events to the palette.

We miss images for those items right now, as well as the ones for the signal event. Working on that bit.

• Only one connection handle shows at a time in the diagram.

We wanted to have only one connection handle showing at a time. That way when you mouse over the shapes, they don't animate all at the same time.

• Terminate events are better centered
• Improvements over lanes


Lanes can now have a background color, and they resize in a better way that they used to.

• We have fixed a pesky bug[4] when using the BPMN modeler in a different editing domain.

We would be happy to have some help for the next Eclipse BugDay.

Regards,

Antoine

[0]: http://www.lunar-ocean.com/blog/graphical-goodies-for-the-bpmn-modeler/
[1]: http://planet.eclipse.org/planet/
[2]: http://dev.eclipse.org/blogs/soatools/
[3]: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=219070
[4]: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=218761
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