Re: Workflow engine?

2008-11-10 Thread greg
BJörn Lindqvist wrote: "standard implementation completely based on WfMC specifications using XPDL (without any proprietary extensions !)" Ah, it's based on WtfMC. That explains everything. :-) -- Greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Workflow engine?

2008-11-10 Thread BJörn Lindqvist
t; So in short: I doubt there is a general solution to the problem. > > Well, from the little research I did it seems some people try anyway. > I doubt they are all just trendy buzzwords lovers. I really don't know what a workflow engine is, but I kind of doubt that :) "implement

Re: Workflow engine?

2008-11-09 Thread Grzegorz Staniak
quot;. Which of course may be true, and of course people with much more experience than I have may implement the required FSMs in half an hour, but that's not what I asked about. [...] > And so if you are asking about the "best workflow engine to base the > work on" you are ob

Re: Workflow engine?

2008-11-09 Thread Grzegorz Staniak
On 08.11.2008, Piotr Chamera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wroted: >> In a couple of weeks I'm starting a medium-size project (using a web >> framework) involving a workflow implementation. Are you aware of any >> open source workflow engines/libraries that I could base the project >> on? Google returns

Re: Workflow engine?

2008-11-09 Thread Tino Wildenhain
t on/recommend an open source python workflow engine/module (implied: to go with a web app). Sharepoint doesn't match the description. I think one could assume that if I'm asking about wheels, I need a pointer to a wheel shop, and I'm not instead making a disguised request for people to

Re: Workflow engine?

2008-11-08 Thread Tim Chase
After all its "just" maintaining a state and rules for possible transitions. I've implemented my own web framework (just like every other Python developer ;-) and I've done my own finite-state-machines for workflows. Web Frameworks are large, error-prone and have a lot of nuanced details. W

Re: Workflow engine?

2008-11-08 Thread Piotr Chamera
Grzegorz Staniak pisze: Hi, In a couple of weeks I'm starting a medium-size project (using a web framework) involving a workflow implementation. Are you aware of any open source workflow engines/libraries that I could base the project on? Google returns hist for GoFlow (Django only, from what

Re: Workflow engine?

2008-11-08 Thread Grzegorz Staniak
e > to haul up a mountain, and whether a wheel is what you need. It's > difficult to answer your original question.. someone could have just > as easily said that you should consider Sharepoint and not bother > writing any code. Aw, come on. The problem was only mentioned, but the ques

Re: Workflow engine?

2008-11-08 Thread Eric Wertman
> To be exact, I used the words "engine/library", not "a whole framework". > Thanks for the link, I've googled for articles and recipes myself and > as I said, I more or less know what to do - I just thought it might be > a good idea to ask whether perhaps the wheel has already been invented. > App

Re: Workflow engine?

2008-11-08 Thread Grzegorz Staniak
On 08.11.2008, Stefan Behnel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wroted: In a couple of weeks I'm starting a medium-size project (using a web framework) involving a workflow implementation. Are you aware of any open source workflow engines/libraries that I could base the project on? Google

Re: Workflow engine?

2008-11-08 Thread Stefan Behnel
Grzegorz Staniak schrieb: > On 08.11.2008, Tino Wildenhain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wroted: > >>> In a couple of weeks I'm starting a medium-size project (using a web >>> framework) involving a workflow implementation. Are you aware of any >>> open source workflow engines/libraries that I could base

Re: Workflow engine?

2008-11-08 Thread Grzegorz Staniak
On 08.11.2008, Tino Wildenhain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wroted: >> In a couple of weeks I'm starting a medium-size project (using a web >> framework) involving a workflow implementation. Are you aware of any >> open source workflow engines/libraries that I could base the project >> on? Google return

Re: Workflow engine?

2008-11-08 Thread Tino Wildenhain
Grzegorz Staniak wrote: Hi, In a couple of weeks I'm starting a medium-size project (using a web framework) involving a workflow implementation. Are you aware of any open source workflow engines/libraries that I could base the project on? Google returns hist for GoFlow (Django only, from what

Workflow engine?

2008-11-08 Thread Grzegorz Staniak
Hi, In a couple of weeks I'm starting a medium-size project (using a web framework) involving a workflow implementation. Are you aware of any open source workflow engines/libraries that I could base the project on? Google returns hist for GoFlow (Django only, from what I can tell), itools.workfl