Element Template Generation Support for @JobWorker annotation

[sbuettner]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

The Element Template Generator Framework allows users to generate element templates based on annotations. The current implementation supports the @OutboundConnector and @InboundConnector annotations. Our users would benefit from being able to generate Element Templates for job workers by supporting the @JobWorker annotation.

This would enable regular job workers to be used in the modeler with all the benefits that come with a generate element templates like consistency (as its source code based) and time to market (due to the generation instead of manually writing a template.

Describe the solution you'd like

• The maven plugin should support job workers.
• The generator should support template generation for multiple job workers in a codebase

Describe alternatives you've considered

The alternative is manually writing the element templates which is cumbersome and error prone.

Additional context

All Connectors benefit from element template generation and we should support regular job worker types as we see the need of users to use element templates for regular job workers.

[crobbins215]

@aleksander-dytko / @bojtospeter have either of you heard any feedback from customers in this area?

[bojtospeter]

@aleksander-dytko / @bojtospeter have either of you heard any feedback from customers in this area?

I haven't, but I would summon @jwulf as he might have some input.

[Rajh]

I would love that. I only found dead projects since 3 years for that purpose.

I'm writing a lot of generic JobWorkers, and writing element templates for them manually is a pain.