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Lane outside a Pool - Activity Designer vs JBPM Designer difference

lucabur — Mon, 03 Feb 2014 15:54:34 GMT

Hi,I have some .bpmn files created with the JBPM 5 Eclipse Designer, and any attempt to import / open them in Activity Designer fails with the following message:—java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: findParentPool was called on a lane that has no pool as a parent at org.activiti.designer.eclipse.na

Re: Lane outside a Pool - Activity Designer vs JBPM Designer difference

jbarrez — Thu, 06 Feb 2014 11:06:11 GMT

Of course, I'm biased 😉

1) My understanding is that a lane cannot exist without a pool (even if there is only one). It's a while I read that section of the spec though, but it sounds right to me.

2) Correct.

3) See 1 🙂

You can definitely file a bug, already to get a better exception stack trace. And reference this forum posts, so we can look it up in the spec when we get to the issue.

Re: Lane outside a Pool - Activity Designer vs JBPM Designer difference

ngigiwaithaka — Fri, 07 Feb 2014 15:39:55 GMT

I am thinking, the solution or bug to be filled could be in helping Activiti Designer import jBPM5 designed .bpmn files without regard as to whether jBPM interpreted the spec correctly.

It would be nice for the two leading open source BPMs to inter-operate to avoid some form of vendor lock-in as is happening in this case.

P.S
Whats the critical reason to leaving jBPM 5?

Regards
Waithaka Ngigi
A1 Workpoint