Support for Workflow Management Standards?
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Hi Markus,
This is a question we occasionally receive. At this time, we
do not support this workflow standard.
One reason is that there are multiple standards and they are
still evolving. Microsoft and IBM entered into a partnership to
create (yet another) standard several months back.
Another reason is that our interactive studio (GUI) is directly
related to the XML scripts it produces. Some standards tend
to be quite onerous and 'shoe-horning' an onerous standard
into the studio would adversely affect the user experience.
(wfmc is not necessarilly onerous.)
An additional important reason is that some standards do
not apply to PowerFolder. From what I can see, they tend to
be 'inter' rather than 'intra' operational. In other words, they
seem to focus on interactions between large business
partners (e.g. ebXML) instead of something much more 'low
level' like sending an email to the accounting department.
A final important reason is that these standards are very
formal regarding extensions. In PowerFolder, you just create
a new tag and make a few configurations in the XML
properties file. No need to create a DTD.
When the standards give some indication of convergance, we
will adopt a standard.
Please let me know what you think. Maybe we can talk online
more about this.
Thanks,
Gary
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1. The diagram "http://www.wfmc.org/standards/model.htm"
shows the parts where your CMS can cooperate with.
2. The
book "http://www.wfmc.org/information/handbook2003.htm"
and 85 others contain uses cases for this kind of application.
3.
How do you think about a cooperation with the tools that can be found by
the search "http://pharos.inria.fr/Java/query.jsp?text=workflow"
at Java-Channel.org?
4. Do you find the documents
"http://citeseer.org/cs?q=Workflow+Management" interesting?
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5. Which Microsoft/IBM standard do you mean?
6. I think that a
work sequence or workflow can deal with documents of all sizes.
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7. How do you think about workflow modeling patterns? Which of them
will be implemented by your
software?
http://tmitwww.tm.tue.nl/research/patterns/