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Introduction, analysis, and explanations of
standard specifications
This stage will (hopefully) drive your architecture and integration strategies. Standard spe-
cifications are created to define a common baseline to be shared and applied in new devel-
opments, which is based on the collaboration and experience of many groups and compan-
ies to aid in integration with other systems. If you decide to change implementations, stand-
ards could help you a lot in not having to rework migrations from one implementation to
another.
This topic introduces two main standards specifications,
Business Process Model and
Notation
Version 2.0 (
BPMN 2.0
) and the Web Service Human Task specification. Both
are used by jBPM6 and reflect good practices to create industry accepted and interoperable
applications.
We won't go into the full details of the specifications in this topic. We'll cover the details
regarding where jBPM6 is not 100 percent compliant with the standard specification and
how to deal with those cases. The standard specifications are not included for being size re-
strictive. Reading them, however, is very good to gain perspective on common practices
adopted in a wide range of industries. We will provide links to them as we dive into them.
