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Data object recombination and process instances

weissenberg — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 11:29:34 GMT

Hi all,in our logistics domain there is a typical process modeling pattern dealing with rearrangements in the flow of data objects (or business objects, BOs) between activities: data from different process instances is processed by one user task implementation and hereby merged to FEWER results, i.e

Re: Data object recombination and process instances

trademak — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 14:02:30 GMT

Hi,

With Activiti data objects are typically implemented with Java, XML or JSON objects.
So you don't model them explicitly in your BPMN 2.0 process definition, but you can use the Activiti API to start a new process instance with a specific object and retrieve those objects during process execution.
So that's more flexible, but also less explicit.

Best regards,