Information Technology Reference
In-Depth Information
Today, the Web Process Designer is the official process editor that comes with the KIE
Workbench. This designer is heavily maintained at the moment, with new features and
bug fixes being implemented on a regular basis to keep track with all the jBPM6 changes.
Because it is the designing tool most aligned with jBPM6 features, for the rest of this
chapter, we are going to cover the usage of this editor.
The jBPM Eclipse plugin
The jBPM Eclipse plugin was the first plugin supplied with the early versions of jBPM5.
This plugin was a straightforward migration from the already existing Drools Flow
Eclipse plugin. When Drools Flow was rebranded into jBPM5, the decision was to stop
supporting the
RuleFlow
(
RF
) proprietary language for process definitions and embrace
the new BPMN 2.0 standard instead. This editor is now officially discontinued. No new
features have been introduced in it for a long time. You can still use this editor to create
really simple processes, but its usage is strongly discouraged.
