Anthony, Do you think about integrating OSWorkflow in OFBiz ?
Jacques De : "Anthony Enrione" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 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. > >> > > > > > > > >
