Activiti Designer 5.10.0 released

[trademak]

Hi all,

I'm happy to announce that the Activiti Designer 5.10.0 is released just now.
You can install it, as always, from:

http://www.activiti.org/designer/update

In addition the JARs and the update site ZIP are available in Maven as well starting from this release, see:

https://maven.alfresco.com/nexus/content/groups/public/org/activiti/designer/

Not that for the users of custom service tasks, the activiti-designer-integration groupId has changed to org.activiti.designer

This release includes the following features:

- Support for message events
- Improved support for text annotations and pools and lanes
- Lots of bug fixes

Best regards,

[afenske]

Hello!

It's awesome! But is there support of MessageThrowingEvent in new version of designer? Can I attach data to the message?

Best Regards,
Anton Fenske.

[trademak]

Hi,

You mean a MessageCatchingEvent? Because a message throwing even is not supported in the Activiti Engine.

Best regards,

[afenske]

No, I said about throwing event. If the throwing event isn't exist in Activiti, how can I send messages between different pools?

Best Regards,
Anton Fenske.

[frederikherema1]

Message-event can only be triggered from outside activiti. So inner-process communication is not possible using message-event.

[trademak]

Yes, that's true Fred but communication between pools is technically also communication between different processes.
Right now we have support for signals to do this, but we should definitely add message throw and boundary event support as well.
Let's see if we can do this for the 5.11 or 5.12 release.

Best regards,

[afenske]

Ok. In this case, is there support of the data objects in Activiti? How can I pass data beetween different business processes?

Best Regards,
Anton Fenske.

[jbarrez]

Data is being passed by the Java API, using process variables.

For the 5.12 release, we're planning on looking into messages in general and see if we can offer convenience there put of the box.

[gunnar1]

As I have bashed the quality of the Designer in it's ealier releases - first of all I want to really compliment you: 
:arrow: the Designer has improved a lot meanwhile - good job, well done   !

There is one small thing you could improve relating to the documentation:
On http://docs.codehaus.org/display/ACT/Activiti+Designer+Developer+Guide there is a guide on how to build the Designer yourself in case you want to extend it's features, etc.
This guide still refers to the old SVN location - which is not up to date any more.
You have moved the sources to https://github.com/Activiti/Activiti-Designer - am I right?

Cheers
Gunnar

[trademak]

Thanks Gunnar, yes that's the correct location.
I'll update the wiki now.

Best regards,