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open source ruby workflow and bpm engine

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OpenWFEru documentation

basic documentation

• OpenWFEru quickstart : doing a gem install of OpenWFEru and running a first OpenWFEru powered program.

• Glossary : explaining the terms used in OpenWFE[ru]

• Participants : as in “participants to business processes”, listing and explaining the participant implementations that ship with OpenWFEru.

• Expressions : expressions are the building blocks for process definitions, this page features a few paragraphs and some examples about each expression found in the OpenWFE(ru) process definition language.

• Dollar Notation : process definitions may sport strange ”${...}” stuff, it’s explained in this “dollar notation” page

• Process Definitions in Ruby : OpenWFEru understands business process definitions written as XML documents or described as Ruby classes

• Rdoc Information : the code generated documentation.

• Engine Template : a piece of Ruby code to copy and modify to get a complete OpenWFEru workflow engine. Or simply a source of inspiration.

• OpenWFE manual : OpenWFE [java] manual. Since the process definition language is the same, lots of pages in this manual are ‘compatible’ with OpenWFEru. Sakaguchi-san made a japanese translation of this OpenWFE manual.

• OpenWFEru – developer overview : some notes for the people interested in OpenWFEru internals.

• OpenWFE’s technical blog : John’s blog on OpenWFE, OpenWFEru, workflow and business process management.

• AQ : some kind of a FAQ, answers to questions made via Google Search (people were afraid to ask direclty)

admin documentation

Gathering pieces of documentation for the process engine admins

• process administration – how to administrate business process instances

• business process journaling – how to activate journaling in OpenWFEru and use journals to migrate or replay business processes

densha documentation

Densha is a kind of OpenWFEru on Rails. It’s a Ruby on Rails™ based web application that wraps the OpenWFEru workflow and bpm engine and adds a worklist system.

• on rails quickstart – how to quickly have a local install of Densha and have a few processes available

• kisha – kisha is a RESTful Rails envelope embedding OpenWFEru

extras’ documentation

• OpenWFEru scheduler – some usage notes about the OpenWFEru scheduler showing how to use it on its own.

• Decision tables – representing complex decisions as spreadsheet tables and wrapping them in a decision participant
• Kotoba – a blog post about the default naming/numbering scheme for workflow instance ids used by OpenWFEru

• Atom – information about OpenWFEru and Atom (feed aspects and publication aspects)

• Active – detailing and explaining some extra stuff in OpenWFEru that rely on ActiveRecord

• The Old REST : OpenWFE’s original (2003) REST interface to its worklist and its Ruby (client and server) implementation