[news.eclipse.technology.jwt] Re: Questions about AgilPro

[lautenbacher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Florian Lautenbacher)]

Hi Steve,

welcome on board of the JWT-project. It is good to hear that the project 
is getting more and more resources from the different companies now! If I 
can be of any assistance for setting up something, please don't hesitate 
to contact me or the other project lead Marc Dutoo.
Emmanuel wrote that you already designed a plugin for workflows and for 
the generation of XPDL? As you might have heard, we already got some 
workgroups for the different details / parts of JWT and perhaps you are 
interested in joining the XPDL and the meta-model working group. We are 
discussing which parts are needed for a good workflow modeling tool (and 
here your expertise is more than welcome!) and what aspects need to be 
considered in order to generate XPDL (and again, it seems you are an 
expert here!). Please find any more information and discussion on the JWT 
newsgroups and Wiki (both are linked from the JWT website: 
www.eclipse.org/jwt).

Best regards,

Florian 

(answer from Steve:)

Marc and Florian:

Thank you for your kind words of welcome.

I inherited a stand-alone/webstart graphical XPDL editor.
In teh time I have been responsible for it, I have added numerous 
enhancemants and converted it to an eclipse plugin.

I have downloaded the AgilPro LiMo application and have started to take a 
look at it.
In our editor, which we call ProEd, the node topology pretty much mirrors 
the XPDL structure.
What I am planning to do is to take AgilPro and try to model all the 
things I know how to do with ProEd.
I will write up
  The things I can't figure out how to model in AgilPro
  The XPDL parameters that are needed
  The places where I can model the concept, but the model topology is
  substantially different than the same concept in ProEd. Since ProEd is
  fairly congruent with the XPDL structure, this should highlight areas
  where we will have to apply significant transformations to go back and
  forth between the metamodel and XPDL.
  any other observations I think are significant.

At the moment I am busy trying to resolve some glitch that appears to have 
occurred whe we moved ProEd from our internal forge to ObjectWeb.
It is not behaving quite the same, so something got bolixed somewhere.

One observation on AgilPro:
The first time I installed it, I accepted the default installation 
location of "C:/Program Files/AgilPro/LiMo"
It got about 2/3 of the way through the install and then complained it 
could not find "C:/Program"
Apparently, something in the installer was having a problem with the space 
in "Program Files".
I uninstalled and re-installed to "C:/AgilPro/LiMo" and the installation 
completed successfully.

Are there tutorials or other documentation available in English?

I am looking forward to a rewarding challenge,

Steve