[Zope3-dev] Workflow

[Rob Page]

Florent Guillaume wrote:
>> As a prelude to the work on workflow that will take place
>> at the > Sprintathon, and before we hash out the needed
>> interfaces and concepts, > I've written a document where
>> I try to explain the different workflow > paradigms and
>> look at them with an eye to finding a common ground.
>>
>> It's at:
>>
>> http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Projects/ComponentArchitecture/TryingToUnifiyWorkflowConcepts
>>
>> Please comment.

Shane replied:

> Several comments have been posted now, but now something
> is wrong with the wrapping on the page, making it
> difficult to read.

> So I'd like to express my POV again, perhaps a little
> better this time.  I think there are really two
> independent concepts being sorted out, and once you
> separate them, the solution is clearer.  The term
> "activity-based workflow" refers to usage of UML activity
> diagrams.  The term "entity-based workflow" refers to
> operating on a single object at a time.  These two
> concepts are not in competition with each other at all.  I
> think we should abandon them.

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I think Shane provides an *excellent* reduction of the issues and
a high-level approach.  I also like the fact that this
abandons what, in my own mind, was confusing jargon.  It
seems to me an excellent candidate for factoring the
workflow in Zope3...

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--Rob