the only comparable product i know is emforge, looks like an opensource jira clone: http://www.emforge.org/wiki/EmForgeWorkflowDevelopment. it uses jbos jbpm to drive the workflow, and therefor one is able to draw the workflow.
On Aug 7, 2:42 pm, Olemis Lang <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Priscilla<[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > Hello ! > > > I am a new user to Trac. I need a tool where I can draw the business > > process model for a project > > and it will automatically get the timeline from it. > > Does Trac have this facility? > > I'm assuming here that you'r talking about using FOSS to design a > business process using BPMN and automatically generate the executable > BPEL to (monitor | run) the process and possible more (e.g. BAM, BI, > ...) . If you need either a human-centric or integration-centric > approach, the answer is the same : > > AFAIK ... NO, there's no plugin for that, but possibly a lot of ways > to make it possible in a few years or so (perhaps I'm a little bit > pesimistic here :-/ ). The fact is that to implement all those things > as one or many Trac plugin is a very, very, very time-consuming task > (not mentioning that I still dont find a Py-lib to manipulate BPEL or > BPMN :-/ ) which definitely requires either a strong incentive (e.g. > the company I work for is evaluating many developments for BPMS, but > AFAIK FOSS is not an option and therefore good bye Trac :-/ ) or many > hands (and this is IMO). Besides it's far beyond the goals of the core > Trac system (especially because of the MINIMALISTIC part of its > approach to project management) > > Perhaps a much simpler approach could be to integrate individual tools > for very particular tasks and (with time) build more tools using a > bottom-up approach. Another aproach could be to run Trac on Jython and > reuse many BPEL | BA | BI | BR libs written for J and so on. There are > a few of them being FOSS. > > OTOH the only useful way I see to integrate both approaches is to use > XmlRpcPlugin and connect Trac services using BPEL4WS -and the > corresponding BPMN «extensions»- but in that case you'll possibly end > up maintaining at least two workflows, and two (maybe more :-/ ) > notification channels (especially if using an human-centric approach, > unless you find a way, that I dont know right now, to integrate one of > Trac's notification plugins with the BPMS in use, or write your own so > that Trac be able to interact with the workflow engine of your > particular BPMS directly -perhaps using web services, there are some > workflow engines that may act as WS providers- ). > > BTW, the best choice I've found for BPMS FOSS seems to be Intalio, but > it has a very particular license. > > However I'd like to see the day when Trac be much more integrated with > BPMS systems :) > > And, of course, If anybody finds a better answer, pls I wanna know ;o) > > Anyway CMIIW if my assumption is not correct. > > -- > Regards, > > Olemis. > > Blog ES:http://simelo-es.blogspot.com/ > Blog EN:http://simelo-en.blogspot.com/ > > Featured article: --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Trac 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/trac-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
