org.jbpm.pvm.internal.model
Interface OpenProcessDefinition

All Superinterfaces:

CompositeElement, ObservableElement, ProcessDefinition, java.io.Serializable

All Known Subinterfaces:

ClientProcessDefinition

All Known Implementing Classes:

LifeCycle, ProcessDefinitionImpl

public interface OpenProcessDefinition
extends ProcessDefinition, CompositeElement

a graph (or tree) structure that can be executed.

Purpose

ProcessDefinition is a base implementation that can be leveraged to build graph based execution languages. While the ProcessDefinition class is concrete and can be used as-is (e.g. by aggregation), most likely processDefinition languages will inherit from this ProcessDefinition and create more specialized implementations.

The specialized processDefinition language classes can extend this ProcessDefinition with new datastructures relevant for that perticular processDefinition language.

Structure

A processDefinition contains a set of activities. Activities can be connected with transitions or activities can have nested activities. But the transitions and nested activities can be combined.

Execution

To create a new execution for a given processDefinition, see #startExecution().

Author:

Tom Baeyens

Method Summary

Activity

getInitial() the initial activity of this process definition

Methods inherited from interface org.jbpm.api.ProcessDefinition

getDeploymentId, getDescription, getId, getImageResourceName, getKey, getName, getVersion, isSuspended

Methods inherited from interface org.jbpm.pvm.internal.model.CompositeElement

findActivity, getActivities, getActivitiesMap, getActivity, hasActivities, hasActivity

Methods inherited from interface org.jbpm.pvm.internal.model.ObservableElement

getDbid, getName, getParent, getProcessDefinition, getProperty, getPropertyKeys, hasEvent

Method Detail

getInitial

Activity getInitial()

the initial activity of this process definition