Am Montag, den 12.03.2007, 12:16 -0400 schrieb Kapil Thangavelu: > On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 11:48:24 -0400, Godefroid Chapelle > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > We have the opportunity to bid for a project concerning > > the automation of administrative processes. > > The client currently has software in Python and Zope/Plone. > > > > They are quite explicit that they want their new applications to be > > built as much as possible with a mix of generic shareable modules and of > > custom modules. > > > > This is a quite big project that, among others, includes the aspects of > > collaboration with / support of the community. > > > > One of the questions we are exploring is : "which workflow engine should > > we use/expand on ?" > > > > In order to help us make a proposal, we would be very interested to hear > > your comments both > > > > - about the existing workflows (DCWorkflow, Zope3.wfmc, AlphaFlow, > > OpenFlow...) > > dcworkflow simple to use, well known, needs extension via custom guards > and triggers to accomodate alot of workflow customization (send email, > route to manager, etc.) > > zope3.wfmc.. abstract, potentially powerful, but imo, needs quite a bit of > code to make anything non trivial functional. > > alphaflow.. i like the best as an architecture (ignoring AT > implementation),
Thanks! I don't like the AT implementation myself either, although I'm also kind of happy that I made AT do what I want. ;) > i think that investing time rewriting it on z3 concepts > would be time well spent, it has flexibility, a library for common > actions, supports organizational workflows much better, and is model > complete in terms of constructs to model conceptual workflows. Ack. However, some user-friendlyness is still missing. See my other post. > openflow.. nothing to say. I think it's dead by now. It didn't seem active a few years ago when we looked at it. Also, the code was kind of scary. It has a very generic model that allows a lot of things in general but is missing the specificity of Alphaflow's library. Christian -- gocept gmbh & co. kg - forsterstraße 29 - 06112 halle/saale - germany www.gocept.com - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - phone +49 345 122 9889 7 - fax +49 345 122 9889 1 - zope and plone consulting and development
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