Overriding WorkflowDescriptor

Hi!

I'm overriding WorkflowDescriptor, StepDescriptor, ... because we have
to work using a different sepcification of the workflows for our
project. It's not very comfortable to override the descriptor classes,
because

1) all work is done in the constructor: I know I can implement my own
constructor or override the constructor and only call super(), but I
don't really like this. I would like to have methods like
createWorkflow(Element root), createAction(Element action) in
WorkflowDescriptor and similar ones in the other descriptor classes that
I can easily override.
   
2) all member variables are private: would be great if they were just
protected or if there would be enough setter (e.g. I need to override
the id, actions-list, ... in StepDescriptor)

I know OSWorkflow is open source and I could just change the source
code, but I would like to stay compatible with the current release to
avoid problems when a new version is released.

Kind regards,
Johannes Testori



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