01: /*
02: * This file is part of the WfMOpen project.
03: * Copyright (C) 2001-2003 Danet GmbH (www.danet.de), GS-AN.
04: * All rights reserved.
05: *
06: * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
07: * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
08: * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
09: * (at your option) any later version.
10: *
11: * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
12: * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
13: * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
14: * GNU General Public License for more details.
15: *
16: * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
17: * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
18: * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
19: *
20: * $Id: ProcessDataInfo.java,v 1.2 2006/09/29 12:32:09 drmlipp Exp $
21: *
22: * $Log: ProcessDataInfo.java,v $
23: * Revision 1.2 2006/09/29 12:32:09 drmlipp
24: * Consistently using WfMOpen as projct name now.
25: *
26: * Revision 1.1.1.3 2004/08/18 15:17:38 drmlipp
27: * Update to 1.2
28: *
29: * Revision 1.7 2004/01/19 12:30:58 lipp
30: * SchemaType now supported properly.
31: *
32: * Revision 1.6 2003/06/27 08:51:45 lipp
33: * Fixed copyright/license information.
34: *
35: * Revision 1.5 2002/04/03 12:53:05 lipp
36: * JavaDoc fixes.
37: *
38: * Revision 1.4 2001/10/06 11:40:29 lipp
39: * Some javadoc fixes.
40: *
41: * Revision 1.3 2001/08/24 12:58:30 lipp
42: * CR/NL fixes
43: *
44: * Revision 1.2 2001/07/26 15:56:39 lipp
45: * Remodelled as interfaces
46: *
47: * Revision 1.1 2001/07/06 08:51:47 lipp
48: * Moved from domain to omgcore
49: *
50: * Revision 1.1 2001/07/05 14:15:08 lipp
51: * Rather complete version.
52: *
53: */
54: package de.danet.an.workflow.omgcore;
55:
56: import java.util.Map;
57:
58: /**
59: * <code>ProcessDataInfo</code> describes the structure of the process
60: * data associated with a
61: * {@link de.danet.an.workflow.omgcore.WfExecutionObject
62: * <code>WfExecutionObject</code>}.<P>
63: *
64: * The OMG specification defines that the data type is specified by
65: * its "IDL type represented by its string name". Porting this to Java
66: * is a bit difficult as the equivalent to this would be to support
67: * something like textual representations of Java types, i.e. Java
68: * source code.<P>
69: *
70: * While this issue needs further investigation, we define the
71: * following: Java primitive types are represented by the
72: * corresponding classes (e.g. boolean values are represented by a map
73: * entry with value <code>java.lang.Boolean.class</code>). Support of
74: * complex types depends on the workflow engine used (some may support
75: * any [serializable] Java object as process relevant data, some may
76: * support only XML as serialized format), as does the way process
77: * definitions define complex types (e.g. as XML Schema
78: * Description).<P>
79: *
80: * In addition to the classes representing Java primitive forms, an
81: * implementation may therefore specify additional types to describe
82: * the type information of a process data item.
83: */
84: public interface ProcessDataInfo extends Map {
85: }
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