De : "Jacopo Cappellato" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > This is really interesting... > and the license of OSWorkflow is not problematic as the one of Shark. > > http://www.opensymphony.com/osworkflow/license.action > > Jacopo
That's an interesting point, indeed ! Jacques > Anthony Enrione wrote: > > Jacques, > > > > Thanks for the reply. > > > > We had a look at using the eventing mechanisms in Ofbiz but found it > > hard to create complex workflows, especially workflows that need to make > > decisions or persist state. We had a look at Shark and found it a little > > on the heavy side. > > > > Just to let you know... > > After having evaluated a number of workflow engines, we have decided to > > go with OSWorkflow. It is small. The main workflow is done in a single > > Java class and it has a simple persistance interface. We found it > > already has support for Ofbiz entities (perhaps this was added by the > > Jira developers as they use both OSWorkflow and the Ofbiz Entity > > Engine?). I have been busy integrating OSWorkflow and adding support for > > invoking Ofbiz Services. OSWorkflow makes use of Quartz to do the > > scheduling but it was very easy to replace this with the Ofbiz scheduler. > > > > Anthony. > > > > Jacques Le Roux wrote: > >> Anthony, > >> > >> Quick answer. > >> > >> The OFBIz workflow engine is normally deprecated by the Shark workflow > >> engine (which was originally built on the top of th OFBiz workflow > >> engine). > >> However I guess that there are not a lot of persons using a workflow > >> engine in OFBiz. > >> In a typical use of OFBiz (eCommerce for instance) most of the workflow > >> job is currently done thru ECA mechanims (SECA for Services, EECA for > >> Entities, MECA for mailing). > >> > >> This is not to discourage you to use the existing workflow engines in > >> OFBiz but to let you know that you will not find much support from the > >> OFBiz community. > >> > >> Jacques > >> > >> De : "Anthony Enrione" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> > >>> Hi all, > >>> > >>> We are using Ofbiz to build an ecommerce site and i am currently > >>> evaluating workflow engines. I have seen that Ofbiz has it's own > >>> workflow engine which (from the source code) looks fairly complete. > >>> There is also support for the Ehydra Workflow engine. I have some > >>> questions regarding the two: > >>> > >>> What is the state of the internal workflow engine in Ofbiz? Is it > >>> > >> fully > >> > >>> functional? If not what areas need to be worked on? > >>> Why was Ehydra chosen to replace the existing Workflow engine in > >>> > >> Ofbiz? > >> > >>> How well does it integrate with Ofbiz? > >>> Does anybody have any experience of using either of the two systems? > >>> > >>> Any advice would be gratefully appreciated. > >>> > >>> Anthony. > >>> > >> > >> > >> > > > > >
