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[bpmn2-modeler-dev] Status for Aug 10, 2012
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Hi all,
Last week's build is a few days late because some much needed code restructuring took a bit longer than expected. This now allows us to support popup dialogs as requested here: [0]. After dragging-n-dropping an item from the toolpalette onto the canvas, a dialog will be displayed to allow you to configure certain aspects of the new item without having to hunt through the Tabbed Property Sheets. Of course these popups can be turned off through User Preference settings so we don't slow down the business analyst types who only want to capture a high-level flow without worrying about the details.
Some of the other enhacements and bug fixes worth noting:
* The annoying Property Sheet refresh problem should be fixed now
* A mysterious "Cannot modify resource set without a write transaction" problem has been fixed
* The editor now handles file rename/move and delete graciously, thanks to a patch contributed by the community
* A new property tab was added for Annotations, also from a community contributor
* We have started "thinking out loud" about supporting multiple BPMNDiagram and BPMNPlane elements as separate tabs in the multipage editor. This work is being done in a separate feature branch (X-multipage) in Git. It makes sense to allow the user to manage the diagram and plane hierarchy (possibly as an outline editor) alongside the BPMN activities.
The latest builds for indigo [1] and helios [2] are now available on the update sites.
On the to-do list for next week:
* Begin working on a process tracing and debugging interface to support a typical BPMN2 execution engine, something along the lines of this thing here: [3]
[0] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=355673
[1] http://download.eclipse.org/bpmn2-modeler/site/
[2] http://download.eclipse.org/bpmn2-modeler/site-helios/
[3] https://github.com/droolsjbpm/droolsjbpm-knowledge/blob/master/knowledge-api/src/main/java/org/drools/event/process/ProcessEventListener.java
"You’ve got questions, we’ve got answers"
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Robert ("Bob") Brodt
Senior Software Engineer
JBoss by Red Hat
