Re: Workflow framework?
Re: Workflow framework?
- Subject: Re: Workflow framework?
- From: "Geoff Hopson" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 20:00:59 +0000
Why not plop a WO wrapper around something like Apache Agila or some
other standards-based framework?
Just thinking out loud - no idea how hard this would be....
geoff
2008/11/23 Mark Morris <email@hidden>:
> I'll have to look in my archived stuff, I don't have it on my laptop
> anymore.
>
> It was done in WO 4.5 (Java), so it will definitely need some updating.
>
> The general approach is you define a workflow as queues and actions, and for
> each valid combination of queue and action while in that queue, a
> destination queue. (Stored in the db, of course.)
>
> Any object you wanted to participate in the workflow had to implement a
> simple protocol. The framework provides your app a list of objects in any
> given queue and a list of valid actions for a queue. It implements the
> actions, and keeps a log of where an object as been. You could register for
> notifications of objects entering or leaving queues, to perform other tasks.
> You could register delegates to run a method to determine if an action was
> allowed on a given object, for finer control. There was a concept of
> locking objects, used to let other users know someone was processing an
> object, and objects could automatically or manually be unlocked.
>
> It didn't provide any UI as I recall, but gave your app the information and
> methods it needed.
>
> The project this was used on had 14 total queues. Once it was implemented,
> approvals that had been taking a week or more averaged about a day.
>
> Now to find the hard drive and/or DVDs it's stored on.... ;-)
>
> Regards,
> Mark
>
> On Nov 23, 2008, at 1:22 PM, Lachlan Deck wrote:
>
>> On 23/11/2008, at 4:27 AM, Mark Morris wrote:
>>
>>> I wrote one a few years ago. From time to time I've thought about
>>> updating it as well as another framework and contributing them, if people
>>> might find them useful.
>>
>> +1
>>
>>> There are a few ways to approach workflow. Email me and we can see if
>>> what I have might be a good fit for your project. I put a lot of time and
>>> thought into it. It is generic, and it was used very successfully in a
>>> project a while back.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Mark
>>>
>>> On Nov 17, 2008, at 3:28 PM, Timothy Reaves wrote:
>>>
>>>> I can't seem to locate a framework for handling workflow. Does
>>>> one exist?
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>> with regards,
>> --
>>
>> Lachlan Deck
>>
>>
>>
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