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        <title>Evaluation of open source workflow engines</title>
        <link>http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=26073</link>

        

        
            <description><![CDATA[Hi All,
I am looking an article or paper which is evaluated open source work flow engines.
Please suggest any location or article to view this.

BR
Senaka]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Thu, 09 Nov 2006 03:03:17 -0500</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:date>Nov 9, 2006</jf:date>
        <jf:author>Senaka Suriyaarachchi</jf:author>
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        <title>TSS Article: The State of Workflow</title>
        <link>http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=26073</link>

        

        
            <description><![CDATA[In the original article the author writes: process instance id versus message correlation: One of the complexities that are introduced with executional business processes is message correlation. Part of the process description must specify how the BPEL...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Mon, 27 Mar 2006 05:31:19 -0500</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:date>Mar 27, 2006</jf:date>
        <jf:author>fishboy</jf:author>
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        <title>TSS Article: XML Workflow</title>
        <link>http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=26073</link>

        

        
            <description><![CDATA[There's a new article by <a href="http://www.stylusstudio.com/michael_kay.html" target="_blank">Dr. Michael Kay</a> that discusses the development of <a href="http://www.stylusstudio.com/xml/workflow.html" target="_blank">XML Workflow</a>...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Thu, 02 Mar 2006 01:41:59 -0500</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:date>Mar 2, 2006</jf:date>
        <jf:author>Stylus Studio</jf:author>
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        <title>More Articles / blogs on Workflow ...</title>
        <link>http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=26073</link>

        

        
            <description><![CDATA[Another blog entry referencing this article<br><a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/9065" target="_blank">OReilly Blog Entry on Windows workflow</a>]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2006 06:28:45 -0500</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:date>Jan 20, 2006</jf:date>
        <jf:author>paul browne</jf:author>
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        <title>re: Open Source Workflow Engines</title>
        <link>http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=26073</link>

        

        
            <description><![CDATA[<blockquote>I know that you would say &quot;you have to know basics of work flow engines.. blah blah &quot; . Well I do. But I cant spend hours in just trying to get a simple work flow running. I have writtent my own for internal use in my bank which are...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2004 08:16:01 -0400</pubDate>

        

        <jf:creationDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2004 08:16:01 -0400</jf:creationDate>
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        <jf:date>Sep 6, 2004</jf:date>
        <jf:author>Stuart Ervine</jf:author>
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        <title>Standards are successful - that's why there are so many</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[None of the current standard specifications has found widespread acceptance the way that SMTP, HTTP, or even SOAP and WSDL are accepted. The work of the WfMC (disclosure: I'm a WfMC working group chair) served as a terminology framework in the 1990s, but...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2004 18:50:14 -0400</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:date>Aug 9, 2004</jf:date>
        <jf:author>Michael zur Muehlen</jf:author>
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        <title>Reset semantics</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Resetting to a state is a re-occuring interesting subject. It is one of the &quot;pros&quot; for using the term &quot;activity&quot; after all ;-).<br><br>Executing a workflow is a mixture of stepping through states and executing actions. While you can...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2004 15:11:25 -0400</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:date>Jun 14, 2004</jf:date>
        <jf:author>Michael Lipp</jf:author>
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        <title>UML 2.0 unsuitability?</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[<blockquote><blockquote>By some really weird twist of fate, OMG replaced the implicit merge by an implicit join in UML activity diagrams between versions 1.5 and 2.0. I really regret this move because it makes UML activity diagrams much less suitable as...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2004 17:16:25 -0400</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:date>Jun 2, 2004</jf:date>
        <jf:author>Bruce Horner</jf:author>
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        <title>Workflow vendors &amp;amp; open source...</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[There are already standards evolving for this area. There is on wfXML from  work flow management coalition. <a href="http://www.wfmc.org/" target="_blank">http://www.wfmc.org/</a><br>Many fo the workflow management system vendors already support these...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2004 07:59:58 -0400</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:date>May 28, 2004</jf:date>
        <jf:author>Vikranth Vikranth</jf:author>
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        <title>Bonita, JaWE, Shark</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The link provided leads to a HTTP Status 500.<br><br>Here are workflow components, from ObjectWeb:<br><a href="http://bonita.objectweb.org" target="_blank">http://bonita.objectweb.org</a><br><a href="http://jawe.objectweb.org"...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2004 10:26:47 -0400</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:date>May 26, 2004</jf:date>
        <jf:author>Francois Letellier</jf:author>
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            <description><![CDATA[I agree with your good analysis.  <br><br>One of the major motivations to start with <a href="http://jbpm.org" target="_blank">jBpm</a> was to create a workflow engine that does a good job on both subjects : workflow *and* EAI <br><br>In jBpm we have the...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2004 06:40:55 -0400</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:date>May 26, 2004</jf:date>
        <jf:author>Tom Baeyens</jf:author>
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            <description><![CDATA[Hi,<br><br>When we started looking for a Workflow product just over two years ago the market seemed to be roughly split in to two types of Workflow vendors.  Those that approached the domain from a historical Workflow perspective, and those that...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2004 05:29:55 -0400</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:date>May 26, 2004</jf:date>
        <jf:author>Timothy Lee</jf:author>
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        <title>re: Open Source Workflow Engines</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Hi,<br><br>Although in some cases workflow projects are so complex for non experimented users, we don't have to forget that most of these users try to deal with workflow advanced configuration instead of use the typical configuration/installation...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2004 04:12:07 -0400</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:date>May 26, 2004</jf:date>
        <jf:author>Miguel Valdes</jf:author>
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        <title>re: Open Source Workflow Engines</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[<blockquote><blockquote>i tried several of them. most of them are buggy and have no documentation.There should be some criteria to be listed on open source projects - like good documentation and a well written example or atleast a good read me to tell...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2004 14:16:58 -0400</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:date>May 25, 2004</jf:date>
        <jf:author>shawn spencer</jf:author>
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        <title>It may not be 100% Java based,</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[but has anyone heard of Lotus Notes/Domino?  People have been doing workflow in that for quite a while now.]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2004 12:23:26 -0400</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:date>May 25, 2004</jf:date>
        <jf:author>akempo</jf:author>
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