Some questions about Activiti's future

davidmartinho — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 02:00:08 GMT

Hello there,First of all, i must congratulate you guys for the excellent job you've made so far. Activiti definitively seems promising to the BPM world I'm currently preparing my PhD thesis, which will mainly focus on how can Social Software empower BPM environments to achieve more fruitful appro

Re: Some questions about Activiti's future

tombaeyens — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 09:10:57 GMT

Question 1:
Will the Activiti Modeler support different model versions of the same business process model? Also, will it possible to create "branches" of the current deployed business process model "trunk" that may later be merged with the "trunk"?

Signavio definitely supports working with multiple versions. To what extend the open source version will be able to work with multiple versions is still not clear. You can just put the version in the file name as a simple solution. But if you want the full collaboration features, consider buying the Signavio product. That works as well with Activiti.

Question 2:
Will the business process execution entities be traceable to their respective business process modeling entities? Regarding the previous question, will the granularity of that traceability allow to identify its version?
I.E.: Will i somehow have a relationship between an executed task and its respective activity model? And will that relationship tell me which version of the model was executed?

Yes. That is the target for Activiti Cycle.
There will be full traceability from the deployed process model version to the source process and to the requirements document.
Though that full scope might not be completely realized by Nov for the 5.0 release.

Question 3:
Will the Activiti Explorer allow to create deviations to the pre-defined flow codified in the business processes deployed?
I.E.: Allow one to create an alternative task, or add an additional data field to the data form?

You will be able to create sub tasks dynamically, assign those and associate data with the task or with those subtasks.

Question 4:
Will the RESTful API that you provide to interact with the Activiti Engine allow all CRUD operations? From what i have seen until now, you seem to only support authentication and read (GET) operations.
I.E.: Will i be able to develop my own Activiti component?

The REST API also will expose update operations. For some parts like tasks, that will be basically CRUD operations. For the runtime process data, CRUD is too low level to expose.

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