Supported are Exclusive Data-Based and Parallel Gateways, Event Based Gateways are indirectly supported by a workaround.
Exclusive Data-Based Gateway
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An exclusive gateway can be used:
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The gateways are mapped to choices, the sequence flows to transitions. The guards of the transitions are derived by the expression or the name of the sequence flow. | |
Overridable <<BPMNOnSequenceFlowCondition>> operations are created for each guard. In this operation the modeler has to evaluate the expression and set the boolean return. |
Parallel Gateway
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Parallel Gateways provide a mechanism to fork and synchronize flows. |
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The parallel gateways are mapped to forks and joins in the state machine. |
Event-Based Gateway
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As already mentioned, Event Based Gateways are not directly supported. | |
But there is a workaround: Replace the event based gateway by a task having the intermediate event as a boundary event. |
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Using the workaround, the mapping to UML follows the rules described in Chatch Intermediate Boundary Events. |