Re: [Openflow-dev] introduction

[kapil t. <kth...@ea...>]

On Wednesday 27 February 2002 07:41 am, kapil thangavelu wrote:
> On Monday 25 February 2002 03:13 am, Daniele Tarini wrote:

> > A graphical way to design processes for OpenFlow would be most welcome.
> > Point is that we were oriented at having a web-based tool, so the
> > graphical process design toolkit would have to be web-based as well
> > (using Java, maybe).
>
> the acs-workflow builder (which is what i'm thinking of adapting to
> openflow) is a through the web tool. its very nice and easy to use. its
> major lack is that it depends on graphviz, which while open source falls
> under a more restrictive license (acs is gpl). i'll setup a box running a
> demo, for people to play with. just to be clear i'm thinking the gui should
> initially just focus on process definition.

i setup a demo of the acs-workflow gui builder. the code itself is openly 
available (gpl) from openacs.org/4  (packages/acs-workflow). i think it maps 
fairly well directly onto the capabilities of openflow. it communicates to 
graphviz via dot files (special syntax files for graphviz) and popen, which i 
think a python based version could do as well. 

http://66.123.57.58:20080/acs-workflow/admin

user: k_v...@ya...
pass: bar

feel free to play around the server. i'm very interested in suggestions on 
how to make such a utility available to openflow.

cheers

kapil