[rules-users] human tasks example with 5.0

[Garrett Conaty]

Can anyone point me to some solid examples for mixing processes with  
human interaction?  I've been trawling through the codebase and it  
looks like drools is geared to support all kinds of different process  
mappings (jpdl, ruleflow, bpel, etc.) on the core engine.  Looks very  
cool and potentially powerful, but I'm trying to get my head around  
how to use it with non-dev users.

It seems the design philosophy is to model the domain as Java objects  
then define rules and flows that use these objects.  Trouble is I  
can't see the interface points to create a UI (rich client or  
whatever) to have a human user take required actions for various  
processes.  This could be as simple as 'get task and data blob', do  
something to it, and post it back (correlating the process ID).

For point of reference, I was quite familiar with how Weblogic  
Integration managed processes and human tasks, and also have checked  
into Singleshot (nice idea, but looks incomplete).  At the moment  
using something like Bonita appears to be the best bet, but with some  
docs/examples/configuration drools could fit the bill.

Then of course I'm hoping there's the infrastructure in place to  
activate/passivate the processes (memory to disk) on requests/ 
responses from the human users

thanks in advance,
Garrett