Activiti Engine compliance option

[mmaker1234]

Hello Activiti Designer developers,

We meet the following problem especially when a new Activiti Engine is released: in the development environment we could and usually will allow ourselves to use all the features of the  most recent Activiti Engine. At the same time, though, environment we need to provide process definitions that comply to the Activiti Engine installed in  production. As the transition to a newer Activiti Engine in production might take more than half a year this problem is annoying. Unfortunately having several instances of Eclipse with different versions of Activiti Designer do not help much as they both use the same directory to store the plug-ins.

Is there any chance to implement an "Activiti Engine compliance" in the Activiti Designer (something similar to the "JDK Compliance" option for a Java project)?

[frederikherema1]

That's requires a lot of effort to implement: eg. modules used to generate BPMN are added as dependencies, which would force us to include multiple versions in the tool. So no, there is no change this will be implemented…

[mmaker1234]

Hello Frederik,

I meant not to switch the entire editor to a previous version, but to limit the available/displayed process design features to the proper set for a selected Activiti Engine version (usually you add design elements and features with each new version of the engine).

I understand that even this is also a lot of effort, though 🙂 This was just an idea as I suppose that other developers meet the same problem.