> Just a heads up on the 2.0 release plans. We > delayed RC2 by two weeks, > but in the process gained a huge update to > app-workflow! Check it out > in CVS as well as Jeff's great XPDL/flow plugin for > Keel > (tool-redkeel). I'll let Jeff tell you what Red > Keel is :-)
It is my honor to formally introduce to the group the newest edition of app-workflow and Red Keel. There are several people that had played around with app-workflow (first version) that used OSWorkflow as the workflow engine. This version was based heavily on Sequence and had many problems. After much work in trying to get that version to work, I decided to start completely over and write a workflow engine (Red Workflow) that could make some assumptions based on the workings of Keel. App-workflow now has Red Workflow integrated and no longer depends on Sequence any more. One other big difference is how you generate the XML files that configure the workflow engine. Previously, you had to hand code XML files (this was riddled with bugs and hair loss from pulling it out!). It migrated to using JProcessEditor, but there were serious bugs in the conversion process from the XPDL standard (workflow standard) and the OSWorkflow configuration XML. >From all of this emerged Red Keel (whose slogan currently is "It gives your apps wings"). Red Keel is actually a suite of tools (all plug ins for Eclipse) that are in the works. Red Wave (Workflow Application Visual Environment) is the first of tools in Red Keel. Red Wave is a graphical tool for drawing and editing workflows for app-workflow. There is some documentation on how to use these two tools together in the docs directory of project RedWorkflowEditor (now known as Red Wave). There will be wiki pages set up very shortly for all of this. I know a couple commercial applications being built right now with these tools and the first is going live within the week. If you are not an Eclipse kind of developer, you have two options. Hand code the XML (that is almost as crazy as not using Eclipse :) ) or you can use JProcessEditor. The next plug in that is being worked on is Rembrandt, a GUI page builder for Keel. This is basically a drag and drop Prompt Model builder. Integrated with it will be REDiquette. This is a package that is in testing for automatic data validation. These will probably be integrated with Keel 2.1. Look for more information soon on a wiki page near you! -Jeff Richley __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree http://keelframework.org/documentation Keelgroup mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.keelframework.com/listinfo.cgi/keelgroup-keelframework.com
