did anyone ever think about using a WorkFlow engine within OpenCA ?
It seems the project has evolved a lot, since a couple of years ago, when there were only a few functionalities.
Now a certain number of processes exist, that need to be carried on
by users, operators and administrators. This resembles so much what
happens in workflows, where you have a process description ("map")
that is used by a Workflow Engine to automatically manage TODO-lists
for various users, and to move items among them according to the map.As the number of processes to be managed by a program grows up, "ad-hoc" management (like the one is currently made inside OpenCA) becomes harder and harder to update, and maybe more prone to errors. A WorkFlow Engine would alleviate from such management tasks, and it would provide some more functionalities, like tracking/auditing and statistics on process instances.
I don't know if it would make sense to use such an approach in OpenCA. Anycase, we have at Scuola Sant'Anna an Open Source WorkFlow Engine, namely OpenFlow, that could be used for the purpose:
http://www.openflow.it
That's just an idea.
Bye,
T.
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