[jwt-dev] Re: WE (Workflow Editor)

[Marc Dutoo <marc.dutoo@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Alan

First, a warm welcome to the JWT forum.


Being able to model custom business or techical information in workflows 
one of the goals of JWT's flexibility.

Have a look at JWT's aspect-like metamodel extension mechanism :
http://wiki.eclipse.org/JWT_Metamodel_Extension

Or on the slides we showed about it at Eclipse Summit last Autumn at
http://www.slideshare.net/mdutoo/eclipse-summit-2009-aspect-oriented-modeling

It provides various ways of doing it, including a simple, no-code one 
involving builtin all-around properties :
http://wiki.eclipse.org/JWT_Metamodel_Extension#Setting_up_simple_.28key-value.29_additional_model_extensions
As exemplified on the CVS at org.eclipse.jwt/we/jwt-we-plugins in
jwt-we-conf-property-model/samples .

That should get you runnning.


And if you like what you see but want more, you'll be able to also 
really model (in your custom EMF metamodel) your metamodel aspect-like 
extension, but also to develop entirely custom views for it thanks to 
the new views mechanism !

One final word : I advise you to ask your further questions on the JWT 
mailing list at jwt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx , as the JWT team monitors it more 
closely.

Best regards,
Marc Dutoo
Open Wide
Eclipse JWT co-leader

alan.j.flowers@xxxxxxxxxxx a écrit :
> I'm new to this and I found this project today.  Not sure if this is 
> possible but I would like to extend the Workflow Editor to store certain 
> information associated to the process definition in Oracle tables.
>
> I'm only interested in using the WE for this purpose (not any workflow 
> engine).
>
> Thanks.