Rob, I'm not quite sute what you are talking about :) OSWorkflow and WebWork do share some "workflow" similiarities, but WebWork (via Action chaining) is for automated flow, where-as OSWorkflow is for flow that is based on user input.
-Pat ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dort, Rob van" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, December 15, 2002 11:26 PM Subject: [OS-webwork] Actions and Dialogs > In current WebWork the main focus is on "actions". > > I miss the EXPLICIT implementation of the concept "dialog". > > In my view a dialog is a finite state machine implementation (FSM), an > action causes a state transition in the active state machine(s) (the (s) is > because an application will usually contain layered state machines). > I think this relates to my previous posting on "reusing actions" as current > WebWork registers "actions" with their follow-up in "views.properties", in > the FSM model views.properties would register "action bindings", which are > unique (state machine plus action). > > I found an article on this topic "Interactive Web Applications Based on > Finite State Machines": http://www.math.luc.edu/~laufer/papers/isas95.pdf > > If you agree, there will be some FSM implementation in OSWorkflow: could a > light version of this serve as a basis? > Of course dialogs will be XML-driven, based on "standards" as BPML or XPDL? > > Regards, Rob. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by: > With Great Power, Comes Great Responsibility > Learn to use your power at OSDN's High Performance Computing Channel > http://hpc.devchannel.org/ > _______________________________________________ > Opensymphony-webwork mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/opensymphony-webwork ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: With Great Power, Comes Great Responsibility Learn to use your power at OSDN's High Performance Computing Channel http://hpc.devchannel.org/ _______________________________________________ Opensymphony-webwork mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/opensymphony-webwork