Chapter 8 Building an Executable BPM: Managing Data and Choreography
The General tab contains the following properties:
| Property | Description |
|---|---|
| Name | The name of the item which should be clear and meaningful, and should convey the item's purpose to non-technical users |
| Code | The technical name of the item used for generating code or scripts, which may be abbreviated, and should not generally include spaces |
| Comment | Descriptive comment for the object |
| Stereotype | Extends the semantics of an object derived from existing objects but specific to your needs. You can type stereotypes directly in the Stereotype box of the object property sheet or select a value from the list if you have previously defined stereotypes in an embedded or imported extended model definition (.XEM) or in the process language |
| Data type | Allows you to choose the type of the variable. You can select from the list a simple type (int, string, etc.) or a complex type (XSD file, OOM class, XML object, etc.). For BPEL languages, it can also refer to a message format object. You can click the Create tool to create a new message format |
| Element type | Indicates whether the variable is an XSD element type or not. If you have defined a complex type (XSD element) in the Data type list, you should select that check box for the complex type element to be generated. The value of the data type is the name of the element prefixed by the namespace |
| Constant | Indicates whether the variable is constant or not during the execution of the process |
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