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BPMN2 — Section 9.2: Pool description needs revisiting

  • Key: BPMN2-209
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14797
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: International Business Machines ( Ms. Suzette Samoojh)
  • Summary:

    Description of issue: Page 114 (144 in PDF) states that a "Pool acts as the container for a Process". This is not true. Pools simply reference Processes.

    Proposal: Rewording to something like: A Pool may have internal details, in the form of the Process that will be executed. Or a Pool may have no internal details, i.e., it can be a "black box".

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    1) in Page 22 Table 7.1 BPMN Modeling Elements
    Original Text
    A Pool is the graphical representation of a Participant in a Collaboration (see page 146). It is also acts as a "swimlane" and a graphical container for partitioning a set of
    Activities from other Pools, usually in the context of B2B situations.
    Append the following to the original text
    A Pool may have internal details, in the form of the Process that will be executed. Or a Pool may have no internal details, i.e., it can be a "black box".
    (2) in Page 144 Section 9.2 - Pool and Participant
    Replace the following text:
    Graphically, a Pool is a container for partitioning a Process from other Pools
    with this:
    A Pool may or may not reference a Process.
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT