good reply, thanks. On Aug 5, 8:40 pm, "John Mettraux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 onehttp://linas.org/linux/workflow.htmlabout 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 > athttp://evang.eli.st/blog/2007/1/12/declarative-workflow-in-railsbut > 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
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