We have worked hard on the BPMN modeler and have a few things to show off.
Some semantic changes
- Associations can target sequence and messaging edges.
At the semantic level only. We are actively working on making it possible to connect them in the diagram.
- Pools hold messaging edges.
We haven’t worked on making it possible in the editor as well, but the semantic model accepts those now.
Support for BPMN 1.1
We are heading for basic support of BPMN 1.1. You can deactivate it in the BPMN Diagrams preference page.
- Signal events
They really don’t look good yet, and we are looking for help on that
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- The look and feel of shapes is BPMN 1.1 compliant

Routing of sequence edges with gateways has drastically improved.

More
- We have added the link and multiple events to the palette.
We miss images for those items right now, as well as the ones for the signal event. Working on that bit.
- Only one connection handle shows at a time in the diagram.
We wanted to have only one connection handle showing at a time. That way when you mouse over the shapes, they don’t animate all at the same time.
- Terminate events are better centered

- Improvements over lanes

Lanes can now have a background color, and they resize in a better way that they used to.
- We have fixed a pesky bug when using the BPMN modeler in a different editing domain.
We hope you enjoy those improvements, will be inspired by them and will give us a hand at the next Eclipse bug day!
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I’m very happy to announce that we made a new release of Intalio|BPMS.
We have fixed bugs in this release, introduced a new tool named “Insert space” (it deserves a separate blog post that should come soon).
Overall the modeling experience is now even smoother.
We also upgraded Designer and Server to support java 6.
You can get all this new stuff for free right now on our community web site.
Happy holidays!
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I will be talking about the BPMN modeler in a tutorial session, along with Hugues Malphettes and Alex Boisvert. You can chat with us on this mailing list if you have questions, or would like to help with the tutorial.
Please leave a comment if you want to meet for a beer!
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I was surprised to find in the M4 News And Noteworthy list a shortcut to change a concatenated String to StringBuffer.
At first, it looks like a good idea.
String s = "offset " + offset + " is at line " + line;
is changed to:
StringBuffer stringBuffer = new StringBuffer();
stringBuffer.append("offset ");
stringBuffer.append(offset);
stringBuffer.append(" is at line ");
stringBuffer.append(line);
I know using StringBuffers is better for performance UPDATE: I confused StringBuffer with StringBuilder! look at this bug for changing StringBuffer to StringBuilder.
I would have rather been going for this:
NLS.bind("offset {0} is at line {1}", offset, line);
Just because this is so much easier to internationalize.
I have almost finished doing i18n for the BPMN modeler, a component of the STP project, and I really lost time on such cases.
Just my $0.02!
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I just moved to kubuntu Gutsy.
It’s very good. It was running well at the first boot, and the ATI drivers were activated in 3 clicks.
Overall (I’m moving from Dapper), the gain in performance and graphics is very noticeable. My computer has never been so silent and so fast.
There are still two small glitches:
I can’t put my computer to hibernate. Well, it does hibernate, but I can’t expect it to wake up.
Here is the Ubuntu bug to watch.
Dolphin. I don’t like it. I have gotten used to the unique features of Konqueror, the copy To action, the tab support.
Feel free to sign the petition to have KDE 4 offer the user to choose his own file manager.
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Adrian Skehill and Matt just finished the migration of the STP project to Subversion.
Thanks for the awesome work guys!
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When using the multistage plugin, which is pretty much required for anything serious on Capistrano, do not use the word “stage” to describe one of the stages. It provokes a name conflict down the road.
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Follow up with yesterday:
you can get my Scala syntax gem extension here, and read below for the instructions on how to install it.
First here is the result:
class Auction(seller: Actor, minBid: Int, closing: Date) extends Actor {
val StringForFun = "hello"
val timeToShutdown = 36000000 val bidIncrement = 10
def act() {
var maxBid = minBid - bidIncrement
var maxBidder: Actor = null
var running = true
while (running) {
receiveWithin ((closing.getTime() - new Date().getTime())) {
case Offer(bid, client) =>
if (bid >= maxBid + bidIncrement) {
if (maxBid >= minBid) maxBidder ! BeatenOffer(bid)
maxBid = bid; maxBidder = client; client ! BestOffer
} else {
client ! BeatenOffer(maxBid)
}
case Inquire(client) =>
client ! Status(maxBid, closing)
case TIMEOUT =>
if (maxBid >= minBid) {
val reply = AuctionConcluded(seller, maxBidder)
maxBidder ! reply; seller ! reply
} else {
seller ! AuctionFailed
}
receiveWithin(timeToShutdown) {
case Offer(_, client) => client ! AuctionOver
case TIMEOUT => running = false
}
}
}
}
}
You will need to add those CSS elements to display things correctly:
pre {
background: #000000 repeat-x;
color: #00FF00;
font-family: arial, 'lucida console', sans-serif;
line-height: 160%;
font-size: 120%;
}
code {
color: #00EE00;
font-style: bold;
font-family: arial, 'lucida console', sans-serif;
}
.comment { color: #333; font-style: italic; }
.keyword { color: #eff; font-weight: bold; }
.punct { color: #444; font-weight: bold; }
.symbol { color: #0bb; }
.string { color: #6b4; }
.ident { color: #00b; }
.constant { color: #66f; }
.regex { color: #a82; }
.number { color: #a33; }
.expr { color: #227; }
Then on your machine, you will need ruby and rubygems installed, and install redcloth and syntax:
gem install syntax
gem install redcloth
Put your sample into a text file in the same folder as run.rb, then run:
ruby run.rb myscala.txt > output.html
That’s about it. It’d be great to develop the same things for Java and CSS. In the mean time, enjoy!
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