Re: UI for authoring SCXML documents

Hi Rob,

I have done some work on automated layout:

https://github.com/jbeard4/scxml-viz
https://github.com/JacobeanRnD/SCHVIZ

SCHVIZ is bundled with the microexpresscion SCXML orchestration server: https://github.com/JacobeanRnD/microexpresscion

My philosophy has been that full graphical editing environments are hard to get right, and that SCXML can be edited productively using text/xml editors, with automated graphical layout tools used to visualize the document. 

I’m planning to package SCHVIZ into a stand-alone command-line tool. It should be released in a few weeks.

If you have any questions or comments, please don’t hesitate to ask. Thanks,

Jake

> On Jul 28, 2015, at 10:09 PM, Rob Rudin <Rob.Rudin@marklogic.com> wrote:
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> All – I’m working on an implementation of SCXML for MarkLogic (http://www.marklogic.com/ <http://www.marklogic.com/>), and I’m curious if SCXML users have UI-driven tools for authoring and managing SCXML documents, or if they are largely edited by hand using text/XML editors.
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> Related to that – has consideration been given to some sort of integration between BPMN and SCXML such that the output of a BPMN tool could be transformed into an SCXML document? I don’t know enough about BPMN to know if this is feasible, but it just seems like SCXML could use some sort of UI for making it easier to author/manage SCXML documents.
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> Thanks,
> Rob