Tels wrote:
On Friday 02 March 2007 22:35:52 Jim Wilson wrote:
"The Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) is a standardized *graphical notation* for drawing business processes in a workflow. "
I am not definitively an expert on this field, so take my opinion for just an opinion. Moreover I have found difficult to understand what it is written in the Wikipedia article. For instance after saying what was quote above (from hence one can conclude that it is a workflow), it is stated that "it is not a data flow"
Thus it would seem that BPMN is already an image file of some kind.
Following the external links on the article, I arrived to some pages that let me think that BPMN only give the semantic, but not the graphic format, and for the graphic format you should better refer to
BPEL4WS (Business Process Execution Language for Web Services) and web page http://content.europe.visual-paradigm.com/media/documents/bpva10BPMNSpec/htm... told you to refer to http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/ws-bpel/
I have just give a quick gaze to that and I think that it define an XML format for the content/image.
So if you have a file in that format the problem is to find an handler for that, in the same way you need an handler to handle SVG file. Onother way would be to find a way to convert into SVG format (which sounds to be a better choice than JPG for such type of image). (or if you want a bitmapped format and not a vector format, PNG format should be better than JPG, anyway)
You could try to use Graph::Easy for it: http://bloodgate.com/perl/graph/ http://bloodgate.com/wiki/Graph
If what I have understood is correct, BPMN has more items than a flowchart. And the differences means not only more semantic declarations, but also more graphics item types. So I wonder if Graph has already all this graphics types required for that format. Even if, you would have to convert from the BPMN or BPEL4WS to Graph format to have it to work for such a format.
But, before trying to get a way to do the thing technically, it should be clear what you are looking for. Have you already a file in that format (in the same way if you had an image in svg or jpg format, in a separate file) and you want a way to have it displayed (as an image and as a thumbnail) or do you want a way to insert the code in the wiki page, to generate an image (in a way similar, for example, to the Graph extension or the EasyTimeline one)?
All the best AnyFile