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    OpenWFE is more than a workflow engine, it is a business process management suite. It interprets and runs Business Process Definitions engine it can run many instances of each of those definitions. The engine relies mainly on 2 services: The Participant Map and the Listener.

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    OpenWFE is more than a workflow engine, it is a business process management suite. It interprets and runs Business Process Definitions engine it can run many instances of each of those definitions. The engine relies mainly on 2 services: The Participant Map and the Listener.

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    Openwfe Technical Presentation

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    OpenWFE is more than a workflow engine, it is a business process management suite. It interprets and runs Business Process Definitions engine it can run many instances of each of those definitions. The engine relies mainly on 2 services: The Participant Map and the Listener.

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    OpenWFEmeansOpensourceWorkflowEngine itisthoughmorethanaworkflowengine, itisabusinessprocessmanagementsuite

    Theengineinterpretsandruns BusinessProcessDefinitions

    Engine

    Itcanrunmanyinstancesofeach ofthosedefinitions

    ABusinessProcessDefinition describesthetransitionofWorkitems betweenparticipants AParticipantisusuallymappedtoarole inanorganization.Theroleis'performed' byahuman(auser)orbyanautomated participant. AWorkitem,dependingontheflow,could representatask,asetoffiles,arequest,...

    interpretsandrunsprocessdefinitions Engine

    storesworkitemsforusers Worklist hostsautomaticparticipants Apre

    webaccesstotheWorklist Webclient TheOpenWFEsuiteconsistsof4components

    ParticipantMap

    Engine

    SocketListener

    Theenginereliesmainlyon2services: TheParticipantMap AListener(usuallyasocketlistener) TheMapcontainsinformationabouthowtodispatchworkitemstothe participants. TheListener'listens'forworkitemscomingbackfromparticipants.

    ParticipantMap

    Engine

    Apre Worklist

    TheParticipantMapisusedbyalotofcomponents. Thesecomponentsareregisteredinthemap,sothateveryoneofthem canaskthemaphowtodispatchaworkitemtoanyother. TheParticipantMapisbydefaultanXMLfile,butitcaneasilybe implementedasanLDAPdirectory.

    Worklist Engine Apre


    SocketDispatcher SocketListener SocketDispatcher SocketListener

    Listenersliveaslongasthecomponenttheyserve. Dispatchersareinstantiatedjustforthetimeofadispatch

    Worklist

    WorkitemStore SocketListener SocketListener

    AWorklistisasetofWorkitemStores. Thereisusuallyonestoreperparticipant(perrole). Thereiscurrently2implementationsofaStore,onethatkeepsitems infilesandonethatstoretheminarelationaldatabasesystem. (MySQLandPostgreSQLforinstance,oranySQL92compliantDB)

    RMIworksession

    Webclient
    RESTworksession

    Worklist

    TheWorklistcomponentexposesaWorksessioninterfacethatenables itsclientstomanipulatetheworkitemsinitsstores. Thisworksessionalsocontainsmethodsforlaunchingprocesses(creating runningworkflowinstancesfromworkflowdefinitions). Thereis2implementationsofthisinterface,aRMIoneandaRESTone. ASOAPworksessioninterfacewillperhapsbeimplementedsomeday.

    policyservice

    Worklist

    TheWorklistgrantsworksessionstousers. Usersarenotdirectlyparticipants,usersaregivenaccesstostores andflowsthattheymaylaunch. Accessinformationforusersisgatheredina'policyservice':a directoryofusers,passwordsandsetofpermissions(onstoresand flows). Thedefaultimplementationofthepolicyservicestoresthisinfoina filenamedpasswd.xml.Otherimplementationsareofcoursepossible.

    QueryWorkitemStore

    Forsomeorganizations/setofprocesses,it'sbettertousea QueryWorkitemStore. It'sastorewhereeachuserisassignedaquery,givingthema'view' onthestore. Thosequeriesselectworkitemsbasedontheirfields'content. AsingleQueryWorkitemStorecouldreplacetheclassicalsetof 'onestoreperparticipant/role'.

    Webclient

    TheWebclientinteractswiththeworklistforahumanenduser. TheWebclientshippingwithOpenWFEasreleasedisageneric webclient,youmightconsiderimplementingyourowntohide allthedetailstoyourendusersandprovidingthemaninterface 'todojustwhattheyhavetodo'.

    Apre

    Agent SocketListener SocketListener

    TheAprecomponenthostsagents. ApremeansAutomaticParticipantsRuntimeEnvironment Thoseagentsare'automaticparticipants',theytakeasinputincoming workitems,takeactionsbasedoninformationinthem,eventuallymodify themandthenfeedthembacktotheApre,whichsendsitbackto theEnginefortheflowtoresume.

    Agent

    ThestandardReactorisajavacomponentthatcanhostjavaorjythonagents. (jythonisanimplementationofpythoninjava,itallowstorapidlydevelop/ prototypeagents). ThereisalsoaPyyaApre,anaprefullyimplementedinpython,which opensthewealthofpythontoOpenWFE. Exampleofagents: agentsthatsumitemslistedinthefieldofaworkitemand storeanewfieldnamed'sum' agentsthatinsertvaluesoftheworkitemintoadatabase agentsthatprintdocumentsreferencedintheworkitem ...

    owfepyyaclient owfedotnetclient

    RMIworksession RESTworksession

    Worklist

    PyyaisapythonlibraryforaccessingtheWorklistthroughaREST worksession. YoucanthusinteractwiththeOpenWFEsuitefromyourpython applicationveryeasily:simplysetupapyyaWorkSessioninstance pointingatthehostandportrunningtheRESTworksession. OpenWFEdotnetprovidesthesamebutiswritteninC#andcanbe compiledasaDLL,forinterfacingyour.NETapplicationswith theOpenWFEsuite.

    OpenWFEisOpenSourceSoftware ItisdistributedunderaBSDrevisedlicense. Thislicensemeansthatyoucanuseitforfree,youcanmodifyit forfree,youcansellproductsembeddingitwithnorestriction.

    Features

    ImplementedinJava Veryopenandflexible Bydefault,storeseverythinginthefilesystem MaypersistinMySQLorPostgreSQL(SQL92) WorklistprovidesaRESTinterface (lightweightwebserviceinterface) Robustandfailureresilient

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