Hi Geraint, 2007/5/14, GHZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Thanks for the answers and status update John, plenty for me to > investigate.
You're welcome, I'm also taking the time to reply in length as it might be useful to others. > > > I'm wanting to investigate this workflow tool on top of web services > > > that we already have defined in an existing project. > > > Could I play the devil's advocate and ask why you wouldn't use a > > BPEL-based engine ? > > I have to admit to being a complete novice in this workflow and BPM > arena. > > My short term purpose is just a proof of concept to demonstrate > information capture and web service calls in a workflow. The human > interaction with the workflow (project is basically a call-centre > environment. passing an issue from one team to another, escalation to > management if the issue is not complete in a specific time period) of > are actually more interesting to demonstrate than the web service > orchestration. > > Am I missing much by not going the BPEL route? (what does it give > me? more automatic handling of web service calls and compensation > logic?) I don't think you're missing much. You're rather gaining in flexibility. Some people have to go the "standards" way. And they have to use XPDL or BPEL (whichever standard is the standard in the eyes of their organization). > I need an environment that is easy to play around with and prototype > in, not necessarily something that will run in production in the short > term. JBoss is out of the question due to learning curve. Long term > I'd probably have to look at Windows Workflow Foundation, but short > term I don't have a machine capable of running the development > environment. > > If it's not appropriate to use openwferu for this proof of concept, I > still have a couple of other low priority projects that could benefit > from workflow (a helpdesk issue tracker and an expense claim > processor) - I'll probably investigate openwferu for these. I think OpenWFEru is appropriate, if it's not, then either a) I've been wasting my time, b) we'll make it better with your feedback and the feedback of other people. Even if it's just for a proof of concept, you should have fun with OpenWFEru. It's meant to be lightweight, quickly adaptable and could be dropped lightheartedly (but please explain why). Best regards, thanks for your interest, -- John Mettraux -///- http://jmettraux.openwfe.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OpenWFEru users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/openwferu-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
