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Mastering jBPM6

By : Simone Fiorini, Arun V Gopalakrishnan
Book Image

Mastering jBPM6

By: Simone Fiorini, Arun V Gopalakrishnan

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Mastering jBPM6
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Parameters, variables, and data


Most of the time, business processes are data-driven processes: tasks handle variables, and rules handle facts; you will not be asked to draw a BPMN diagram without handling variables, parameters, objects, and states coming from external systems, user input, and other sources. A majority of the jBPM constructs are useless without data. Let us clarify the basics:

  • Parameters: These are the data input coming from the user through the API. The user can pass parameters during process creation, at a human task completion, or into a service task for a Web service call.

  • Variables: Variables are objects living in the scope of a single process instance. Variables can be created directly inside a process instance construct (for example, Script Activity and Data Object) or can be mapped from/to other variables (Data Input/Output Mapping) defined in another scope, for example, from the main process to a subprocess, from the process to a human task, and so on.

  • Globals:...