Task management extensions: Human interaction management

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a) Application: Some process being executed that hits a task activity

b) Task Mgr: The current jBPM4 base model for managing tasks. It includes assignments, variables, etc.

c) Notification Mgr: Decouples the notification features. I.e. email, ical,etc. The idea is borrowed from the latest code contribution.
How and if the task management does notifications will be pluggable. We will probably provide a smtp notification mechanism as the default.

d) Form Mgr: Interfacing the outside world. Formost use would be HTML forms of some kind, but can be a WS interface as well. The Form Mgr relies on the variables and resources associated with a process.

RFC: Process deployment use cases

This is a request for comments.

• What deployment use cases do we want to cover?

  • What constraints should apply for each use case?</ul> The matrix below shows the constraints for the deployment policies that are currently implemented:

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    Explanation:

    There is currently four properties that are taken into consideration when processes get deployed:
    the process name and version (part of jpdl.xml), the artifact name (i.e OrderProcess.par) and the artifact timestamp.
    Process name, version and artifact name are the main properties that distinguish process deplyoments, the timestamp basically just acts as a fallback when no version is given and leads a version auto-increment.

    Possible combinations of those properties lead to matrix above.