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Hi all, I’ve mixed up the articles from
yesterday a bit to create (yet another) description of JWT ;) Compared to the articles I tried to tone
down the “advertisement angle” a bit in favor of a more direct
description of the project’s goals and features. Here is the first try: The Java Workflow Tooling project (JWT)
brings open business process design and development to the Eclipse platform. It’s
goal is to not only allow users to model their processes but also to refine them
by adding technical information so they are ready to be executed on existing process
or workflow engines. JWT already comes with several built-in
extensions, e.g. an UML Activity Diagram and an Event-driven Process Chains
(EPC) view, BPMN interoperability and code generation algorithms (e.g. for XPDL
or WSBPEL). Additional views, model extensions and
transformations can be integrated through a flexible framework allowing communities
and vendors to build their own BPM platforms. See more about it at Why JWT?[link]
and JWT Ecosystem[link] Maybe the “Getting started”
section could also be replaced by a textual description? A screencast[link] demonstrates how an
executable business process can be implemented. If you are new to JWT or want
to build your own BPM solution you can refer to the tutorial[link]. The
downloads can be found here[link] or directly on the update site[link]. Finally, a small point which I forgot to
mention yesterday: What is your opinion about the download page in the wiki. I
think it’s kind of redundant since we now have Marc’s new download
page which is much nicer. Also the wiki page with links to each separate plugin
is a pain to maintain ;) Regards, Chris |