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A.6. Process Elements
Important
This chapter contains introduction to BPMN elements and their semantics. By no means does it aspire to be an exhaustive language specification. For details about BPMN refer to Business Process Model and Notation, Version 2.0: The BPMN 2.0 specification is an OMG specification that defines standards on how to graphically represent a business process, defines execution semantics for the elements along with an XML format of process definitions source.
The specification also includes details on choreographies and collaboration. Note that Red Hat JBoss BPM Suite focuses exclusive on executable processes and supports a significant subset of the BPMN elements including the most common types that can be used inside executable processes.
A Process Element is a node of the Process definition. The term covers the nodes with execution semantics as well as those without. Elements with execution semantics define the execution workflow of the Process, while Elements without execution semantics (Artifacts) allow users to provide notes and further information on the Process or any of its Elements so as to accommodate collaboration of multiple users with different roles, such as, business analyst, business manager, process designer.
All Elements with execution semantics define their generic properties.
Generic Process Element Properties
- ID
- ID defined as a String unique in the parent Knowledge Base
- Name
- Element display name
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