My company developed an XML-based workflow engine for our product.
Its not graphical but users can fill out forms in order to
create the XML process definition. The XML process definition
contains the workflow roles, activities, and activity transitions.
--
Nick
Jonathan Asbell writes:
> Is there anyone on the list that actually HAS experience developing with
> workflow engines?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rey Francois" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 4:40 AM
> Subject: RE: Work flow RFC
>
>
> > Another possibility is to develop extensions for the TogetherJ CASE tool.
> It
> > is entirely written in Java, therefore can run on most platform, and from
> my
> > understanding it is possible to define new diagram types and patterns.
> >
> > This may not directly relate to workflow, but we have in our team created
> > the concept of a request servicing diagram which is a class diagram
> > representing the objects involved in servicing a request. Particularly on
> > this diagram we display the request object and the action it is mapped to.
> > Although we have not done it yet, it is quite possible to develop a
> pattern
> > that generates the corresponding action mapping entry in the
> > struts-config.xml, and vice-versa.
> >
> > François Rey
> > Financial WebSuite
> > Capco
> > http://www.capco.com/
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Craig Tataryn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: 05 June 2001 20:06
> > To: Jonathan
> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: Work flow RFC
> >
> >
> > Is this a workflow editor or just a configuration editor (which would be
> > nice
> > for struts)?
> >
> > craig.
> >
> > Jonathan wrote:
> >
> > > 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/>
> > > >
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