Conversion deals with moving a process definition from an old version format to a new version format. jBPM 6 gives us some (pretty much experimental) options when upgrading older process definitions to a new jBPM release format:
Importing from the old proprietary jBPM JPDL 3/4 to BPMN2 with the jBPM web process designer menu function
Ad hoc migration with
jBPM5migrationtoolproject
andjbpmmigration-0.13.jar
or a newer release (API mapping is also supported)
The goal of the jBPM5migrationtoolproject
project is to provide some migration tooling to the existing users of jBPM for moving from jBPM5.
Note
The project home and Wiki pages are available here: https://developer.jboss.org/wiki/jBPM5migrationtoolproject. The project is hosted on GitHub: https://github.com/droolsjbpm/jbpmmigration.