[Openflow-dev] Re: Workflow Standards vs PROforma

[Wayne W. <ww...@um...>]

Bud P. Bruegger wrote


> 
>  From what I've seen, Proforma is totally unrelated to workflow 
> standards by WfMG, OMG, and IETF.  IMHO, it is mostly concerned with 
> decision support and much less with actual workflow.
> 
Unrelated technically perhaps, but as someone else pointed out, clinical
decision making can be thought of as a node in a workflow.  So many of the
pre-conditions to making  a decision can be the result of workflow.
>
> WfMC's Workflow Handbook 2001 
>
Thanks for the history summary, it will save others from trying to prise
apart things and spending too much time looking at things like SWAP, which
have since transformed into XML.
>

> (magi.endeavors.org) 
>
Been there in the past, they are building some kind of peer to peer web enabled
stuff, the primary technology being WEBDAV.  
> 
> The U.S. Army's Joint Computer-aided Acquisition and Logistics Support 
> (JCALS) has is implementing Wf-XML (see 
> http://www.aiim.org/wfmc/pr/army20000615workflowpressrelease.html).  Not 
> open source, though...
> 
Exactly the situation, either you can't find any code, or you find really old and
obsolete systems and standards.