[Zope] RE: Workflow and document management system in Zope

[Spicklemire, Jerry]

This may be the link you were thinking of:

http://www.omg.org/technology/documents/formal/corba_business_specifications
_av2.htm

with the Corba Workflow Specification available as a .PDF.

>  Thanks for the interesting URLs on workflow discussions.
>  
>  Corba Ecommerce has very interesting and thorough models of workflows,
>     including UML diagrams and even an XML format for defining state
machines.
>  Sorry, this may be old news as I don't have time to follow up the actual
>  threads
>  beyond the first messages.
>  
>  But if not, anyone designing such a system for Zope *must* study the
Corba
>  stuff.
>  
>  Email me direct if the URLs haven't been published in the discussions and
>  I'll be happy to dig them up (hard to find within www.omg.org). Or,
(easier
>  for me), I can email the (large) .pdf files direct.

> I also know that WfMC (Workflow Management Coalition, www.wfmc.org)
> has adopted many of OMG's workflow concepts in the past. I am not
> sure if what you are referring to is recent new development by OMG.
> 
> For a diagram of WfMC's workflow reference model see the diagrams at:
> 
> http://www.zope.org/Members/aboulang