Hey Jason ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jason van Zyl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hi, > > I am very interested in making a workflow engine (as I'm sure others on this > list are interested in doing) and I wanted to know if anything has started > in earnest based on drools? > > I've a couple commercial packages that look really neat: > > http://www.dralasoft.com/products/workflow/index.html > http://www.insession.com/workpoint/workpoint.asp > > I also know there is some code in the jakarta-commons but I'm sure it's well > base on graph concepts. I haven't looked to closely though. > > James, I know you were discussing somethings with Craig about JMS and > Workflow so maybe you have a better idea.
Its definitely something that will take up much of my time next year I think. Somewhere between web applications/services, databases, messaging, scripting and rules is a killer workflow system. I tend to take a MOM-centric way of looking at the workflow space, based on sending messages around a network using a MOM or HTTP/SOAP. I think Craig is tackling workflow from a web-app/struts perspective. Others (such as dralasoft above) focus more on database-centric workflow; then there's the rules/logistics part as well. Between us all with all our different outlooks and specializations, we should be able to put together a cool open source workflow framework from parts, like drools, commons-workflow, velocity, messenger etc. > In the project I work on (Tambora, tambora.zenplex.com) is basically all > workflow and right now we are doing things in a fairly manual way so I am > looking at a general workflow engine generally to make my life easier :-) It looks interesting. I'll be tracking what you do - I wonder how much of Tambora will turn out to be generic and could be reused on other systems. James > > If anyone is thinking about this I'd love to hear your thoughts before I > tear into it. > > -- > > jvz. > > Jason van Zyl > > http://tambora.zenplex.org > http://jakarta.apache.org/turbine > http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity > http://jakarta.apache.org/alexandria > http://jakarta.apache.org/commons > > > > _______________________________________________ > drools-interest mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/drools-interest _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ drools-interest mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/drools-interest
