Ideas for further development

There are many avenues for further development that could be explored with jBPM: in fact, there are as many variations as there are implementation business scenarios. In this section, we will present a few ideas for taking jBPM further, leaving it up to the reader to decide which are worth further investigation and experimentation.

Breaking up the process into phases using superstates

JBoss jBPM supports the notion of process "superstates", which we can use to split up our long process into process phases. This can be very useful when we want to report on the status of a process instance: rather than having to tie down the instance to a single node, we can report back that the instance is in the "such and such ...

Get Business Process Management with JBoss jBPM now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.