On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Incze Lajos wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 11:46:58AM -0700, Frye, Dave wrote:
> > Keep in mind that Microsoft uses there own version of DTDs and XML Schemas
> > that are not W3C conformant. You would then have to use their XSL tools,
> > which, of course, would be Wintel-based. This would not make for a very
> > platform independent solution...
> >
>
> I know of two Workflow DTD's. The one seems to be emerging
> beeing a strategic element for the IBM web services effort
> (altough the DTD is open). It is the WSFL (Web Services Flow
> Language - http://www-4.ibm.com/software/solutions/webservices/resources.html)
> which is pretty general, and an even more general one from
> the W3C submissions, XTND (XML Transition Network Definition
> http://www.w3.org/TR/xtnd/ ). There was an "official" workflow
> standard initiative some years ago, but it became really big
> (see www.wfmc.org for the Workflow Management Coalition).
> Don't think these would give "the" solution, but (mainly the
> IBM spec) provide a good vocabulary. incze
>
I'm currently about half way through the WSFL spec, and so far it looks
like a useful model. Being oriented towards web services (i.e. batch RPC
interactions), I want to think carefully about how you would script
interactions with humans in a web app.
Craig
