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From: "Ovidiu Predescu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Ivelin Ivanov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 10:33 PM
Subject: Re: [status & RT] design challenges


> On Fri, 5 Apr 2002 21:03:25 -0600, "Ivelin Ivanov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> >
> > I dare to challange our sitemap gurus to make a comparative analisys of
the
> > Jakarta Workflow engine and C2 sitemap.
> >
> > http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs/jakarta-commons-sandbox/workflow/
>
> Workflow's approach appears to be based on a finite state machine
> model. Checkout the sample control file at:
>
>
http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs/jakarta-commons-sandbox/workflow/src/wizard-de
mo/WEB-INF/wizard.xml?rev=1.1&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup
>
> The same approach can be modeled in Cocoon today using actions.
>
> However a much better approach is the one based on
> continuations. Check out the Schecoon calculator sample at:

I have actually seen it and was hoping that you can elaborate a bit on the
advantages of continuations vs. state machine.

>
>
http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs/xml-cocoon2/src/scratchpad/schecoon/webapp/exa
mples/calc/calc.js?rev=1.3&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup
>
> and look at the additional resources used by it.
>
> It is my opinion that this model provides a much better way of
> describing the flow in Web applications and perhaps in Web services as
> well.

How so? I would like to understand more.



Ivelin

>
> Regards,
> Ovidiu


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