Re: Link to user guide no longer there

bob mcwhirter <[email protected]> Thu, 22 May 2003 16:44:59 -0400 (EDT)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.werkflow
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> Apologies for the clarity of this but I have read so much today on workflow
> and other stuff that the clarity part of my brain is being swamped by other
> stuff. Product of age I think.
> 
> Firstly, Bob had a link to a user guide in this list,
> http://eng.werken.com/~bob/werkflow-guide.pdf, this no longer works. The
> idiom page on the website is not really enough for me to get a handle on how
> the syntax works. Once I 'get it' I am happy to contribute syntax examples
> for each of the cases (based on those shown at
> http://tmitwww.tm.tue.nl/research/patterns/patterns.htm)

Actually, re-established that link today.  It's valid again.

> I note that the archives for the interest group and CVS seem to peter out
> around the 10th April. Has development stopped for the moment? If so si the
> use of the engine at Zenplex a production environment? The reason I ask is
> that I am investigating replacement of linked scheduled tasks I have in my
> product with a pucka workflow engine where the outcome from a task can have
> a decision made about what to do next. So once I have identified a engine
> strategically 'right' with the right licence I will have a go at integrating
> it.

Development has also picked back up in the past few days, due to zenplex's need.

> The FAQ page for werkflow makes a reference to using werkflow both as an
> engine for orchestrating tasks humans carry out (through a web interface
> typically) and also at a micro level for user interface flows. Is there
> anywhere any elaboration on this tantalizing statement? This interests me
> greatly, I just finished a contract where they claimed they were building a
> workflow designer for building logic for web applications. It was no such
> thing but the idea interested me just the same. I am sure werkflow using
> prevayler will be fast enough to support the latter of these 2. The concept
> that I only need to learn one engine that accomodates both of these ends is
> very attractive.

Haven't exactly addressed the user-interactive stuff yet, but I have some
ideas.  Fully-automated flows work now.

	-bob