On 8/25/07, Pat Cappelaere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Just looked at Densha.  Interesting...!
> You are aware that as part of OWS-5 we are working on something similar.  We
> need workflows for geospatial applications.  In OGC speak, we call that a
> Workflow Chaining Service (WfCS).  This is basically a rails application on
> top of OpenWFE.  The twist is to use a RESTful approach and provide a unifed
> interface that others can use to interact with the engine.  We are working
> with the Workflow Management Coalition.  They have developed a generic SOAP
> interface (WF-XML).

(BTW, what an ugly, meaningless name :-( )

> This is also important as it is an interface to be used by the GUI (Matelot)
> to upload workflows.
> It might be good to merge at some point but I am not sure where Densha is
> going yet!

Hi Pat,

for now, Densha is just to be an "OpenWFEru on Rails" example / showcase.

I have to think about the "REST interface" thing, maybe it's better to
let it be a separate thing (an option to Densha or other OpenWFEru
instances).

There are more and more people googling for "rails workflow engine" or
"openwferu on rails", so I made my move forward and I'm having fun.

There is also Matt's work : http://code.google.com/p/fluxr/ but it
seems a bit stalled (at revision 3) these days. Matt seems to be
willing to provide something RESTful, whereas Densha is a web
application (for human direct consumption).

We'll see, looking forward what happens with you and Matt.


Best regards,

-- 
John Mettraux   -///-   http://jmettraux.openwfe.org

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