Hi Mark, On 8/5/07, mrelectron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hi: > > i just joined the group, am investigating workflow for a project mgmt > web-application. the first article i read on workflow was last week > and was this one http://linas.org/linux/workflow.html about workflow. > > i thought it a terrific article and the wf model he describes is very > simple (too simple ?). but my question for the group (if you can take > the time to read the article or have already seen it), is it a > reasonable model and is openwferu based around this model, > > if openwferu is not based on this model are the differences > significant cos at first glance openwferu looks good and is written in > ruby (yay!).
OpenWFEru is not built around this model. The article describes a graph-oriented workflow system, OpenWFEru is rather "block-oriented", no "state plus transitions". Rbpm (http://rubyforge.org/projects/rbpm) could fit the graph-oriented mindset but the project hasn't moved since more than one year. You could also have a look at http://evang.eli.st/blog/2007/1/12/declarative-workflow-in-rails but this is Rails specific. OpenWFEru let's you describe a business process as : sequence do participant :alpha participant :bravo participant :charly end whereas a graph-oriented tool would force you to do : <process> <states> <state>alpha</state> <state>bravo</state> <state>charly</state> </states> <transitions> <transition><from>alpha</from><to>bravo</to></transition> <transition><from>bravo</from><to>charly</to></transition> </transitions> </process> Two different mindsets, and we haven't yet talked about concurrence and other workflow niceties. The quickstart for OpenWFEru is at : http://openwferu.rubyforge.org/quickstart.html The documentation is at : http://openwferu.rubyforge.org/documentation.html Best regards, -- John Mettraux -///- http://jmettraux.openwfe.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OpenWFEru dev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/openwferu-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
