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.
>
>
>
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