Kris Verlaenen <kris.verlaenen <at> cs.kuleuven.be> writes: Kris thanks a lot for your answers they're very helpfull.
>Is there a way to render the process model more user friendly toward > > more 'business' people ? [...] A graphical editor would be very > > nice. Oups ! I made an english mistake here :) I was thinking about the data model that you use within the process. It seems to me that with Drools you must use JavaBeans that you define using Eclipse standard tools. Meaning you have to generate getter/setter, etc... You don't have a graphical representation of your beans and their relationship. Compared to what you have when you work with BPEL tools where you work with a graphical tool to define your data... I wished there was a graphical tool to design the data model that you will be using in your process so that it was more accessible for business people. It's not a problem for Java IT people, though a specific tool for it would increase productivity still. Maybe this tool exists somewhere ? I didn't found one yet. I'd hate to have to plug-in a UML or GMF/DSL modeling tool + generator just for designing the JavaBeans. By the way what is the better approach : using a global JavaBean 'processModel' Object where you plug all the data that you need in the process or using multiple variable ? I'm still not set on whether it's better to generate 'state' variable (shouldProcessStop, isProcessEnded, isCustomerIdentified, etc...) that would be calculated through rules or actions nodes and then used in constraints or if I should try to 'evaluate' those status in the constraints themselves. Having the rules engine close by opens new dimension on BPM compared to jBPM... > There is an Eclipse plugin that allows you to query for human tasks and > complete them, for testing purposes. Similarly, there is a simple Swing > GUI that can be used to see the work items generated by the process and > complete them: Is it part of the Drools release ? Or an aditional tool ? A huge thanks for your answers, I'm really looking forward using Drools for BPM ; discovering this module was a really pleasant surprise... _______________________________________________ rules-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-users
