[Openflow-dev] Re: [Zope-dev] OpenFlow workflow engine

[Vincenzo Di S. <e.d...@ic...>]

Ulrich Eck wrote:

> Hi Vincenzo
> 
> 
>>Thanks you for your attention, we know the examples 0.3 were not so much 
>>usefull and we`ve prepared new example for the 0.4, but it seems to have 
>>some problems I`ll fix immediatly.Let me know if you think it will be 
>>usefull for you to explain OpenFLow features.
>>
>>
> 
> send me a notice when you updated the Examples .. I will have a look on them.
> 
> 
>>P.S.: Sorry I didn`t receive any mail.
>>
>>
> 
> 
> I haven't saved it .. I just try to describe what i wrote than:
> 
> I'm deep into development of CMF related things and the new DCWorkflow-0.4 is
> mainly based on my work.
> 
> You mentioned the cmf-workflow in your docs somewhere and said somethings about
> it's limitations .. I agree in some points.
> 
> this is why a group of cmf-developer including me want to code a "better Workflow" for CMF.
> 
> I have looked at your code when you released v0.3 and I have read all the wf-xml-docs
> before I knew your product. so .. I'm basically interested in finding a way to
> use an Activity-based workflow in cmf in addition to the object-workflow.
> 
> I'm working on a State-Transition-Machine based User-Interface for CMF Based on 
> Shane's work (DCWorkflow).
> 
> after this is done .. "only" the project/activity-based workflow is missing .. and I thought
> that we could share work on this, if you are interested.
> 
> I have had long thoughts on how to integrate another workflow into cmf but I think, the more
> I code the clearer the way gets ..
> 
> Are you basically interested in sharing work on workflow (your OpenFlow) that I would 
> try to extend and modify that we can use it in CMF ???
> 


Yes we are interested in share work and we are also very interested in CMF integration. We aren`t CMF experts but we think is a good product.

Let me know in which direction you want to start the integration and we can build together a development plain.

> I'm also willing to help in other terms like storage of tokens (wich should be separated from 
> the process-definition in my opinion), better support for Expressions (instead of strings, that
> represent a method/folder) for Application-definition and conditions .
> 
> I have a lot of ideas that I'ld like to bring into OpenFlow, if we get a "better Workflow For CMF"
> as a result. this could easily lead to a base-product and two extended parts (one for zope directly,
> one for cmf as a tool)


Every good ideas (and good developers :) ) are well accepted in the 
OpenFlow Project, so if you have suggestions on the structures, the code 
or everything else, let us know and we could work together to build a 
better product.

> 
> let me know what you think about this.
> 
> thanks for your answer,
> 
> Ulrich Eck
> net-labs
> monaco, germany :)

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