Swimlane Support?

[aparnachaudhary]

Are there any plans to add a notion of swimlanes in the future releases of activiti?

[jbarrez]

Depends on what you mean by swimlanes: if you mean the bpmn meaning, then swimlanes do not offer valuable execution semantics. If you mean jBPM semantics, then yes we might add that in the future - but nothing concrete is planned there.

[tombaeyens]

Our first plan is to see if there is a real need for swimlanes beyond what you can do with process variables.

[aparnachaudhary]

@joram, yes I'm talking about the jBPM semantics.

IMO with swimlanes, I can easily open the process definition and quickly check the task assignments. Yes, it can very will be done using process variables, but then I'm afraid how business analysts would know about the assignments? If not swimlanes, may be support for defining process variables in a declarative fashion could be added (just a thought).