[Obe-developer] Open Business Engine 1.0 RC1 is Available

[Adrian P. <ad...@bt...>]

Good Day OBE Developers and Users,

It gives me great pleasure to announce that Release 1.0 of the Open Business Engine occurred on 1st January 2006. Binary and source distributions are downloadable from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=52553.
 
OBE is a Java workflow engine implementing Workflow Management Coalition
Open Standards (WfMC: XPDL, WAPI, Auditing). Modular, configurable and
extensible, OBE suits J2EE or embedded deployment. The emphasis for the
1.0 release has been on establishing a durable server-side architecture
with quality, standards support, extensibility and demonstrability as
key requirements. OBE 1.0 supports inbound and outbound integration via
scripting languages, XML, JMS, HTTP, Web Services, Java Apps, JavaBeans,
Native Apps,EJBs, WebDAV etc. etc.

There's a capable web-based worklist handler application built using JSF
technology and and some exhaustively documented examples.
 
There's a comprehensive HTML documentation set detailing installation,
configuration, execution, programming, etc., and there are also several
example XPDL workflows. 
 
Please report any problems to the appropriate OBE list: 
 
- obe-bugs for bug reports (search first) 
- obe-user for 'how-to' questions 
- obe-developer for help on writing OBE extensions such as services and
tool agents.

Please let us know how you get on.

Oh - and by the way - I'd still be interested to hear from any
organisation (commercial or otherwise) that's using OBE; it would be
helpful if I could include some brief product/usage examples in the
documentation. So far I have only heard back from Chalex Corp (thanks
Gary!).

Good luck and best regards,

Adrian Price

OBE Architect