I haven't used OpenWFE extensively but at several points in the past I had done some cursory research for workflow engines and common methodologies between engines and liked what I saw with OpenWFE, mostly because the workflow patterns supported seemed comprehensive, it is a well-documented open source project, and the exchange format for process definitions was an XML document. There may be better alternatives, I can't be sure, but the concern I had was in not reinventing the wheel where there is a well-established precedent. It seems to me that workflow / process modeling is quite domain agnostic. However, in the recent ACPP teleconference, it was mentioned that there are already RDF vocabularies for process / workflow modeling that may not cover what is needed for decision support reasoning. I wonder if that is a limitation of those particular vocabularies or the current state of workflow modeling methodologies (such as those used by OpenWFE) Chimezie Ogbuji Lead Systems Analyst Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Cleveland Clinic Foundation 9500 Euclid Avenue/ W26 Cleveland, Ohio 44195 Office: (216)444-8593 ogbujic@ccf.orgReceived on Tuesday, 18 July 2006 20:48:51 GMT
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