Re: Workflow Integration Roadmap

Alex McLintock wrote:
> At 12:45 03/04/03, Andreas Hartmann wrote:
> 
> 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.

There is a latex documentation in the CVS repository.
If you want, I can send you the PDF.

> 
> 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.

I got the best impression from jBPM (http://www.jbpm.org).
They have a nice online demo.

Andreas