Re: [jbpm-dev] Re: Collaboration

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 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >