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• we want to be able to display tasks independent of the presence of an underlying workflow engine
  
  • i.e a one-shot task (e.g. a short translation assignment given to a particular user) for which setting up a whole workflow process would be overkill.
• we want to be able to retrieve the status of a given task
• ideally we would like the list to be updated automatically as new tasks arrive, are taken, updated or completed. 

jBPM User Tasks

What is a User Task?

From the official jBPM documentation:

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