Thanks Jacques, That is useful and appreciated. Ted
Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone on the Rogers network. Original Message From: Jacques Le Roux Sent: Friday, September 19, 2014 3:27 PM To: [email protected] Reply To: [email protected] Subject: Re: OfBiz workflow Le 19/09/2014 20:16, Ted Byers a écrit : > On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Ron Wheeler > <[email protected]> wrote: >> No one is suggesting using JIRA as part of OFBiz. (As Jacques points out >> parts of OFBiz are used in JIRA as a development framework.) >> > Nor was I. I was just curious about how the workflow features already > in OFbiz compared with what is in Jira (or, in other words, what > Atlassian added). https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/Is+OFBiz+for+Me#IsOFBizforMe-OFBizWorkflow(EDAArchitecture) >> The suggestion was to use JIRA as an issue tracking system to help manage >> the Workflow project. >> > Ok, not a stretch there as it is already used by ASF. Adrian suggested to use the ASF Jira (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ) to handle the communication between the persons interested working on mixing OFBiz with Activiti > >> The suggested technical base for Workflow is Activiti (read the start of >> this conversation at the end of this page). >> > OK. But then, I'd be interested in a comparison of Jira with Activiti > with what is already in OFBiz. ;-) OFBiz uses EDA as explained in the link above. Jira workflow is limited to transitions between status. Activiti is a real workflow engine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activiti_%28software%29 Jacques
