ISO/IEC INTERNATIONAL STANDARD 19510 First edition 2013-07-01 Information technology Object Management Group Business Process Model and Notation Technologies de l'information - Modele de procede d'affaire et notation de I'OMG Reference number ISO/IEC 19510:2013(E) ISo IEC @ISO/IEC2013 py IHS under lic ted without license from IHS Not for Resale ISO/IEC 19510:2013(E) COPYRIGHTPROTECTEDDOCUMENT ? ISO/IEC2013 All rights reserved. Unless otherwise specified, no part of this publication may be reproduced or utilized otherwise in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, or posting on the internet or an intranet, without prior written permission. ISO copyright office Case postale 56. CH-1211 Geneva 20 Tel. + 41 22 749 01 11 Fax + 41 22 749 09 47 E-mail [email protected] Web www.iso.org Published in Switzerland ISO/IEC2013-All rightsreserved py IHS unde ittedwithout licensefromIHS Not for Resale ISO/IEC 19510:2013(E) Table of Contents Foreword xxvii Introduction xxvili 1 Scope 1.1 General 2 Conformance 2.1 General 2.2 Process Modeling Conformance 2.2.1 BPMN Process Types 2.2.2 BPMN Process Elements .... 3 2.2.3 Visual Appearance 8 2.2.4 Structural Conformance 8 2.2.5 Process Semantics 2.2.6 Attributes and Model Associations 9 2.2.7 Extended and Optional Elements . 9 2.2.8 Visual Interchange 70 2.3 Process Execution Conformance 2.3.1 Execution Semantics 10 2.3.2 Import of Process Diagrams 10 2.4 BPEL Process Execution Conformance 10 2.5 Choreography Modeling Conformance 10 2.5.1 BPMN Choreography Types 10 2.5.2 BPMN Choreography Eiements . 11 2.5.3 Visual Appearance ... 2.5.4 Choreography Semantics .. 2.5.5 Visual Interchange 2.6 Summary of BPMN Conformance Types 12 3 Normative References 12 3.1 General 12 3.2 Normative 13 3.3 Non-Normative 4 Terms and Definitions 16 5 Symbols 16 6 Additional Information 16 6.1 Conventions ..16 6.1.1 Typographical and Linguistic Conventions and Style 16 6.1.2 Abbreviations 1> 6.2 Structure of this Document 17 @ ISO/IEC 2013 - All rights reserved ili CopyrightInternationalOrganizationfor Standardization No reproduction or networking permitted without license from IHS Not for Resale ISO/IEC 19510:2013(E) 6.3 Acknowledgments 17 7 Overview 19 7.1 General ..19 7.2 BPMN Scope 20 7.2.1 Uses of BPMN .21 7.3 BPMN Elements 25 7.3.1 Basic BPMN Modeling Elements 26 7.3.2 Extended BPMN Modeling Elements 29 7.4 BPMN Diagram Types . 39 7.5 Use of Text, Color, Size, and Lines in a Diagram .39 7.6 Flow Object Connection Rules 40 7.6.1 Sequence Flow Connections Rules .40 7.6.2 Message Flow Connection Rules 41 7.7 BPMN Extensibility .42 7.8 BPMN Example .43 8 BPMN Core Structure 47 8.1 General .47 8.2 Infrastructure 49 8.2.1 Definitions 49 8.2.2 Import ... 51 8.2.3 Infrastructure Package XML Schemas. 52 8.3 Foundation 53 8.3.1 Base Element .. 54 8.3.2 Documentation . 54 8.3.3 Extensibility . 55 8.3.4 External Relationships 59 8.3.5 Root Element 62 8.3.6 Foundation Package XML Schemas 62 8.4 Common Elements .64 8.4.1Artifacts 64 8.4.2 Correlation .72 8.4.3 Error 79 8.4.4 Escalation . 80 8.4.5 Events ... 81 8.4.6 Expressions 82 8.4.7 Flow Element .84 8.4.8 Flow Elements Container 86 8.4.9 Gateways ... .88 8.4.10 Item Definition .. 89 91 8.4.12 Resources 93 8.4.13 Sequence Flow 95 8.4.14 Common Package XML Schemas 98 101 8.5.1Interface 102 8.5.2 EndPoint .. 103 iv @ ISO/IEC 2013 - All rights reserved CopyrightInternationalOrganizationfor Standardization No reproduction or networking permitted without license from IHS Not for Resale ISO/IEC 19510:2013(E) 8.5.3 Operation 103 8.5.4 Service Package XML Schemas 104 9 Collaboration ......... 107 9.1 General ..107 9.2 Basic Collaboration Concepts .110 9.2.1 Use of BPMN Common Elements .110 9.3 Pool and Participant 111 9.3.1 Participants ..... 9.3.2 Lanes 9.4 Message Flow 119 9.4.1 Interaction Node 122 9.4.2 Message Flow Associations 122 9.5 Conversations 123 9.5.1 Conversation Node 127 9.5.2 Conversation 129 9.5.3 Sub-Conversation 129 9