Re: [Springframework-developer] Re: workflow

[Mike Cannon-B. <mca...@gm...>]

I'd say the same - we use OSWF in JIRA (http://www.atlassian.com/jira)
and it is actually very nice to work with. It's a workflow system
developed by Java developers, not workflow wonks - so as a developer I
can understand the concepts quite easily.

There's a growing manual / library of information here:

http://wiki.opensymphony.com/display/WF/OSWorkflow

Hope this helps,

Cheers,
Mike

On Sat, 14 Aug 2004 17:51:52 +0200, Fernando Martins <fm...@de...> wrote:
> see below,
> 
> On Saturday 14 August 2004 14:07, Oliver Geisser wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > mustaoglu serdar wrote:
> > > hi,
> > > I want to learn experiences about worflow on spring
> > >
> > > which open source project is suitable: jbpm , cor:cern , twister ..
> > > anyone can compare according to integration, performance and usability.
> > > thanks.
> >
> > As far as I know there is no Spring integration of a workflow engine.
> > But we face the same problem and so we have evaluated some workflow
> > engines.
> >
> > There are many workflow engines out there:
> > http://www.manageability.org/blog/stuff/workflow_in_java/view
> >
> > But we want an embeddable, non-EJB engine. For this requirement we found
> > only the following ones:
> >
> > - Osworkflow
> > This project looks good on the first sight. But if you take a second
> > look there are (IMHO) some problems. Osworklow suffers from feature
> > creep (integration of many third party libs for scripting, jobs, etc).
> > Also the concepts confused me because they do not follow "standards"
> > (which is not bad on itself) but there is no good explanation about the
> > fundamental ideas behind them. It also seems there is only one active
> > developer and no active community.
> 
> http://www.opensymphony.com/osworkflow/3.%20Understanding%20OSWorkflow.html
> This seems to give a good grasp of Osworkflow concepts.
> As far as I know, Hani and Patrick are the developers behind it.
> Recently some Spring integration code has been comited which makes it easy to use Spring configured Hibernate Session.
> We're using it at werk3at.com and the integration was really quick and easy, we're even geting our Functions and Conditions loaded from the appCtx and participating in Transactions.
> I agree though that osworkflow is still a bit of a mess, specially AbstractWorkflow.java, and it doesn't care for standards.
> We've looked at jbpm2, but as you said:
> 
> > But if you want JBPM2 to use a Spring configured Hibernate Session
> > Factory which takes part in Spring controlled transactions then it will
> > become a little bit tricky.
> 
> And since we needed something quickly, we went with osworkflow.
> If in the future jbpm2 code will change to allow more easy integration with Spring, we might replace Osworkflow, but for now it's working fine for our usecases.
> 
> 
> 
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