>From Barracuda's Scope Summary (see,
http://barracuda.enhydra.org/Barracuda/docs/scope_summary.html#2.4),
Barracuda's scope explicitly excludes application flow control.
didge
-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 9:34 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Work flow RFC
Again, Ive got to say look at the Barracuda project. They have one of these
gui configurers. Check it out at
http://barracuda.enhydra.org/Barracuda/GetBConfig.event
----- Original Message -----
From: "Craig Tataryn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 12:28 PM
Subject: Work flow RFC
> Hi, I would like your comments for the workflow item on our TODO list.
> Currently this is how I've envisioned the workflow project:
>
> 1) A nice GUI type Applet or Application that has visual constructs
> which can be connected in a Visio type manner to create an Activity
> diagram or some other type of flow diagram.
>
> 2) This diagram will be persisted in an XML file which holds meta data
> for the elements in diagram (position, type of construct (controller,
> flat html page, cgi script, flow arrow, etc..)).
>
> 3) The diagram can be exported to a struts config file via XSLT (i.e.
> workflow.xml -> workflow2struts.xsl -> struts-config.xml)
>
> 4) A diagram can also be imported from a struts-config.xml file via XSLT
> (i.e. struts-config.xml -> struts2workflow.xsl -> workflow.xml). Of
> course some sort of "pretty layout" code would have to be used to
> un-jumble the mess of constructs that are sucked out of the
> struts-config.xml file (i.e. take a guess at proper positioning
> information).
>
> The GUI should employ some sort of extensibility mechanism like BSF
> (http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/projects/bsf) or Bean Shell
> (http://www.beanshell.org/) to allow users to plug-in their own
> functionality (i.e. validation code) without jeopardizing the core code
> (what I call the Emeril Lagasse technique -- BAM!).
>
> I realize this is a very high level look at the TODO but I think as we
> get more comments we will get more granular and can start dishing out
> segments.
>
> Let me know what you think.
>
> <tataryn:craig/>
>
