Marquée Workflow Automation Engine / News: Recent posts

The beginnings of a homepage has been added. Currently, it contains a very brief introduction to this project. It will be extended shortly. We have had some meetings regarding this project and we think we're on the right track. We'll add notes and documents as they are created. First out is a detailed description of the scope of the project and the modules it will be comprised of.

Regards,
Greger Ohlson

In a few weeks, this project will receive preliminary design documents as well as a code baseline for a workflow automation engine. The engine is geared towards automating various tasks on behalf of interfacing application where each task is part of a workflow package. The tasks represent invocations of XML-RPC services and may represent any functionality expressable by an XML-RPC server.

This project is the result of recognizing a problem with customer requirement handling. Today the majority of the requirements expressed by customers are hard coded into applications with only the possibility of changing a few settings or so. For instance, when an error occurs within a server application the server probably creates an entry in a log and perhaps sends an email to the administrator. This behaviour was probably decedied upon during the requirement specification phase. If, however, the administrator wishes to receive an SMS notification when an error occurs, the customer is out of luck.... read more