Re: Micro-workflow engine suggestion

Carlos:

Quick word of history: Keel's workflow expert, Jeff, is sometimes off
the list for a while, but I very much imagine he'll have some
perspective to share on Keel's existing workflow. The workflow "service"
went away because workflow in Keel was "driving" the Model objects, and
was not a service called *by* the Models, so it became an application
(app-workflow), rather than a service.

Just wanted to toss in those 2c while I was thinking of it...

I think BPM-style workflow is a somewhat different animal than the
app-workflow, but I'd defer to it's author to say how different. Our
current workflow does have a very nice GUI editor, though.

Mike

On Sun, 2004-08-08 at 17:37, Carlos Cardenas wrote:
> Hi All,
>  
> I have been spending some time on trying to find a micro workflow
> option and I think this one seems a good option (presentation):
>  
> http://www.openwfe.org/openwfe.swf
>  
> It doesn't have the BPEL baggage and seems to be quite functional,
> tell me if you have other suggestions.
>  
> I did look at OpenSymphony and JBPM (no designer UI) and few others
> and this one makes more sense from the re-usability point of view.
>  
> Of course the objective is to abstract out the workflow as a service
> so we can plugin diff workflow engines (quite difficult until JSR 207,
> 208 comes along).
>  
> Thx