[jbpm-dev] Re: Collaboration
Thomas Diesler
thomas.diesler at jboss.com
Mon Aug 4 03:18:28 EDT 2008
Hi Kris,
thanks for this feedback. Could you please put this on the dev forum,
I'll be glad to answer there.
cheers
-thomas
Kris Verlaenen wrote:
> Thomas,
>
> I don't know if you know me but I'm a member of the JBoss Drools team
> and leading the ruleflow efforts and the integration between processes
> and rules. Our vision is to create a unified platform where rules and
> processes are simply different ways of expressing (some of your)
> business logic and can be seamlessly integrated. This would allow users
> to select the most appropriate paradigm for their problem and integrate
> rules and processes without requiring them to learn and integrate
> different products themselves. This is partially based on the
> observation that both rules and processes have a very similar life
> cycle: creation in a custom editor, storing your business logic in a
> repository, deployment to a runtime environment, monitoring and
> management of the execution, etc. We believe that is should be possible
> to offer an unified environment where this life cycle is supported as
> much as possible and both rules and processes are considered different
> types of business logic.
>
> Mark told me that you are creating a BPM API that can be used for both
> jBPM 3 and 4. It would be interesting to see whether ruleflow can also
> fit in here (and maybe in the long term whether we can offer a similar
> API for both rules and processes). I'm already working with Koen Aers
> on creating a shared core process definition model for both jBPM and
> Drools Flow, so there might be some overlap. I attached a screenshot of
> our progress so far (the core concepts). Is there any information
> available about the API that I could take a look at. I'd also be glad
> to provide you with more information about our approach or links to our
> API as well.
>
> I hope we'll be able to share some of the efforts of both teams. As I
> said already, I'm working with Koen on integrating and extending the
> eclipse-based process designer. But I'm also thinking about our
> repository (Guvnor) for storing business logic, or the BAM/SAM efforts.
> I would be interested in knowing what you guys are up to in the future
> to see whether there are some opportunities for collaboration. I've
> also been told that you are going to provide WS-HumanTask integration
> for handling human tasks. I have implemented a proof of concept
> implementation for Drools Flow that uses the WS-HT service from
> ActiveEndpoints to execute human tasks in Drools Flow. I also have some
> experience with Eclipse-BIRT for creating basic monitoring reports for
> our execution engine. So if I can be of any assistance, let me know.
>
> Kris
>
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