Workflow engine?

[Grzegorz Staniak]

On 08.11.2008, Tino Wildenhain <tino at wildenhain.de> wroted:
 
>> In a couple of weeks I'm starting a medium-size project (using a web 
>> framework) involving a workflow implementation. Are you aware of any 
>> open source workflow engines/libraries that I could base the project
>> on? Google returns hist for GoFlow (Django only, from what I can tell),
>> itools.workflow, spiff (AFAIK tied to a CMS), but not much else. I don't
>> think I'll have enough time to get acquinted with Plone and its offer
>> of products. Has anyone here tried any such code? What would you recommend?
>
> I would recommend to start with a problem, rather then with a solution.
> There is not so much magic in workflows as you might seem to think.
>
> After all its "just" maintaining a state and rules for possible transitions.

Sure, and I know more or less how I'd do it if I had to code from scratch.
On the other hand, I don't want to code from scratch - if there are other 
viable options. I'm not a genius, but I think I'd manage to write a web
framework too - do you really think it would be a good idea to start 
writing another one? I'd much prefer an existing workflow project that 
I could use, test, and contribute to, just as I decided on TG for the 
web thing.

GS
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Grzegorz Staniak <gstaniak _at_ wp [dot] pl>
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