Folks,<br><br>Two general comments on the format of the RuleFlow (.rf) file from when I was doing the NumberGuess documentation.<br><br>When I built workflow apps using jBPM I was able to edit the workflow XML files by hand. Some people prefer this and it makes it easier should somebody want to build an alternative editor for these files (
e.g Web Based instead of the Eclipse IDE). For jBPM I *had* to edit these manually , as the IDE kept crashing. <br><br>The comment / complaint is that the Drools Ruleflow files are much harder to edit. Yes, it's xml but the nodes do not seem to be in any particular order. With jBPM , the nodes tend to be arranged in a flow from Start to End.
<br><br>Talking of Web Based editors for flow, have you seen the Ajax / DHTML Editor that Yahoo has for Pipes: <a href="http://firstpartners.net/blog/technology/xml/2007/03/23/yahoo-pipes-in-10-easy-steps-sample-for-iona-dublin/">
http://firstpartners.net/blog/technology/xml/2007/03/23/yahoo-pipes-in-10-easy-steps-sample-for-iona-dublin/</a><br><br>This shows that it is possible to have a Flow editor implemented in HTML.<br><br>Just my two thoughts.
<br><br>Paul<br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/1/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Mark Proctor</b> <<a href="mailto:mproctor@codehaus.org">mproctor@codehaus.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Feedback welcome.<br><a href="http://blog.athico.com/2007/10/drools-examples-documentation-gets.html">http://blog.athico.com/2007/10/drools-examples-documentation-gets.html</a><br><br>Mark<br>_______________________________________________
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