Re: Workflow Integration Roadmap

At 12:45 03/04/03, Andreas Hartmann wrote:
>>>yesterday I was looking for a usable and simple workflow
>>>engine again, but I didn't find something better than
>>>the previous results.
>>
>>I must say that from a cursory glance I quite liked werkflow
>>http://werkflow.werken.com. It sounds quite industrial strength which
>>would make it a good fit for us.
>>What was wrong with it?
>
>- "There has been no official build as of yet."
>- "Nighly builds have been temporarily suspended."
>- It is based on Petri nets, which is quite low-level
>   for expressing complex conditions
>
>I can give it a try, but I would still suggest to put
>an interface and an adapter between the workflow engine
>and the rest of lenya. How much time shall I invest
>until I give up?
>
>Andreas


I'm interested in workflow for simple editing processes and so looked at 
werkflow. Sadly I can't find any documentation or an example of how it is 
used. I do NOT believe that javadocs are satisfactory documentation by itself.

The "workflow" I am most interested in is

contributer enters a draft article
contributer submits it for approval by the editor
editor sees ammends the article, plus adds comments to it
contributer approves ammended article or has the chance to go back to the 
first state
once both contributer and editor are happy the article gets put into the 
system and is visible by the public.

This is probably so simple a workflow that a workflow engine is not needed 
- but I'd like to know that one is available - particularl for pre-tasks 
and post tasks such as telling people when a new article has been approved.

Alex



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