Hi all, These days, i have finished a demo for this Eclipse-based Visual State Chart editor, you can find it here http://blog.163.com/guixl_001/blog/static/41764104201031383845507/, and i also finish my initiatory system work flow design,you can find it here:http://blog.163.com/guixl_001/blog/static/41764104201031395040765/
If you have any advises,please let me know :-) Best regards Xunlong Gui On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 2:42 AM, xunlong gui <ustbco...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I have been using Apache Commons SCXML Engine for more than two years,Now i > have an idea to improve it, and I wanted to post it and see if there would > be any interest in it in the Apache SCXML community. If possible, i want to > hold it as a GSoC(url:http://socghop.appspot.com/) open source project. > The basic idea of the project is to create a Eclipse based visual editor and > debugger for SCXML which can also generate SCXML statechart to Java code. > > State Chart XML (SCXML) is currently a Working Draft published by the World > Wide Web Consortium (W3C). SCXML provides a generic state-machine based > execution environment based on Harel State Tables. SCXML is a candidate for > the control language within multiple markup languages coming out of the > W3C.It is very useful to handler complex status transfer logic,but if a > SCXML file is really so huge and complex,it will become too difficult to > maintain and refactor or to test its logic validity. > > This project is to develop a Eclipse plunge-in visual editor which is > capable of showing a graphical representation of the process model and > allows for adding breakpoints to activities, variable modifications and > managing the debugging process for SCXML.I have already done some work on > both SCXML and Eclipse GMF,even i tried to implement a SCXML editor using > GMF and got a little achievement,so i want to develop this editor with GMF > and have enough confidence to finish it. > Usually,State Chart XML file will be running on a SCXML engine(for example, > our Apache Commons SCXML),if some one only want to achieve the SCXML file's > business logic,but do not want to or can not use some SCXML engine due to > licence problem etc,this tool can export SCXML file's logic to executeable > Java code which has the same state logic translation with the SCXML file. > > This is my mainly idea,if anyone has any questions or comments, or would be > interested in mentoring this project, please let me know. Thanks.
