| Possible to use the JWT editor but for a different model? [message #494812] |
Mon, 02 November 2009 12:55  |
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I am currently developing a custom workflow and that effort has led me to discover this project. All the functionality that the JWT editor has seems to be exactly what I would like to use for my development efforts, except that I need to back it with a custom model, essentially replacing most to the model components with ones specific to our needs.
For example, the activity component is analogous to our "Flow" component, but we also have many more "Action" types that would need to be part of the flow. Perhaps I could get away with renaming Activity to our Flow component name, but then I also need to modify the model to incorporate the additional Action types, eventually removing the generic Action altogether.
Any ideas on the best way to achieve this?
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| Re: Possible to use the JWT editor but for a different model? [message #494988 is a reply to message #494812] |
Tue, 03 November 2009 08:32  |
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Hi Josh
Have a look at the EPC plugin (by the University of Augsburg) :
in the CVS, at org.eclipse.jwt/we/jwt-we-plugins/jwt-we-view-epc
In addition to providing a customized view with custom figures and icons
that have a completely different outlook from the default one, it
provides an additional "EPCEvent" workflow model element that should
show you how to add your own.
I wouldn't advise you to change the existing model for fear of breaking
things, but you can change the text that is displayed for a given model
element in the plugin.properties (ex. Action -> Flow). As shown in the
EPC View sample, you can also change and extend a lot of other things
(1), including adding new model elements by subclassing or using EMF
Aspect-like extensions that we provide :
(1) http://wiki.eclipse.org/JWT_Extensions
(2) http://wiki.eclipse.org/JWT_Metamodel_Extension
Regards,
Marc Dutoo
Open Wide
Eclipse JWT co-lead
Josh a écrit :
> I am currently developing a custom workflow and that effort has led me
> to discover this project. All the functionality that the JWT editor has
> seems to be exactly what I would like to use for my development efforts,
> except that I need to back it with a custom model, essentially replacing
> most to the model components with ones specific to our needs.
>
> For example, the activity component is analogous to our "Flow"
> component, but we also have many more "Action" types that would need to
> be part of the flow. Perhaps I could get away with renaming Activity to
> our Flow component name, but then I also need to modify the model to
> incorporate the additional Action types, eventually removing the generic
> Action altogether.
> Any ideas on the best way to achieve this?
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