Information Technology Reference
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The main purpose of BPMN 2.0 is to provide business process representations that can be
understood without the need for technical skills. Its concepts are not technical at all. There
are abstract representations for when tasks need to be performed, decisions should be
taken, and information needs to flow from one point to another—not tied to any technical
implementation at the business process definition level.
The implementation, however, handles specific technical concepts that allow BPMN 2.0 to
define connections to specific components in order to make it run on defined runtimes.
These connections have several complex parts intrinsic to a technical implementation that
require a deep understanding of IT. BPMN 2.0 needs to provide a way to work with these
two perspectives, and this is why jBPM6 adds specific extensions provided by the tooling
to configure all the specific components needed to define and run our process inside the
jBPM6 runtime.
In this way, we can say that the graphical representation of the diagram is a business per-
spective of the process designer, while the specifics of configuring its properties and valid-
ating the process rely on a more technical profile.
