Sasa, Where do you see the synergies between Shark and Ode? i.e., How would the respective communities benefit?
alex On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 5:00 AM, Sasa Bojanic <[email protected]>wrote: > Dear All, > > I've already posted an email to incubator's list asking for a > champion/sponsor for moving Shark project to Apache. > I communicated with Matthieu Riou and he suggested ODE could be a sponsor > for this project and told me the best way would be to start discussion on > this list. > > Let me repeat what I already posted to incubator list: > > Enhydra Shark workflow engine is a project currently hosted on ObjectWeb ( > http://shark.objectweb.org/) > > It is the most popular open-source java workflow engine completely based on > WfMC standards. > It uses XPDL1.0 as its native workflow process definition language. > It can be embedded into other Java applications (Swing, Console, ...) or > can be used as a server through WebService, EJB, CORBA, ... > > Shark's modular, plug-in architecture makes shark suitable for integration > into different kind of projects. > > It is a mature project started 5years ago, has a significant community and > more than 100000 downloads on ObjectWeb and almost 10000 posts on mailing > list. It is widely used all around the world in production, typically > integrated into different kind of applications, from DocumentManagement and > government applications up to applications for special purposes like bank > services, HR, Help desk, ... and in many, many others > > Our goal is to move the core shark components to Apache. We should have no > problems with CLAs since these components are developed only by our core > developers. > We would like to continue with Shark development on Apache by re-factoring > Shark kernel's code and other major components to support XPDL2.1 > specification. > > Attached is an initial version of SharkProposal....Please feel free to ask > any question. > > Greetings, > Sasa. > >
