Workflow Engine - Ofbiz

[ja...@productive1.com]

Team - Has anyone ever used a Workflow engine in Ofbiz that allows for
you to change the workflow of an Ofbiz process.  For example:

Order is placed->Workeffort created for service->PO created in
factory->alert/email sent to customer-> order received from
factory->services invoice generated

We are looking to be able to flexibly customize the workflow depending
on customer classification.  Any thoughts are experience?

Thanks,

James

Re: Workflow Engine - Ofbiz

[Nicola Mazzoni <ni...@mpstyle.it>]

Hi James,
I don't have much experience with OFBiz to give an exhaustive answer,
but the recent trend is interesting. There are open source workflow
managers (Apache Ode or jBoss RiftSaw for example) which are webservice
orchestrators that use the BPEL standard as a scripting and "descriptor".

For this reason the use in OFBiz (where services are not webservice but
internal services) I think is very complex.

Thanks
Nicola

Il giorno ven 20 set 2019 alle ore 16:39 Jacques Le Roux <
jacques.le.roux@les7arts.com> ha scritto:

> Hi James,
>
> Long ago OFBiz had a workflow. It was even used as a basis for Shark
> workflow[1]
>
> Then OFBiz workflow was abandoned and replaced by an EDA Architecture[2][3]
>
> In some cases the EDA Architecture has been considered by some people to
> be abused [4][5] which is something else.
>
> Nobody never seriously worked back on workflows in OFBiz. Since then some
> people asked kinda the same question than yours, notably evoking Activiti[6]
>
> [1]
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/OFBiz+Attic#OFBizAttic-Worflow
> [2] look for "OFBiz Workflow" in
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/Is+OFBiz+for+Me
> [3] https://s.apache.org/zdqwf
> [4] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-4501
> [5] https://markmail.org/message/fbjai67yvszkhqe3
> [6] https://ofbiz.markmail.org/search/Activiti+
>
> HTH
>
> Jacques
>
> Le 20/09/2019 à 14:21, james@productive1.com a écrit :
> > Team - Has anyone ever used a Workflow engine in Ofbiz that allows for
> > you to change the workflow of an Ofbiz process.  For example:
> >
> > Order is placed->Workeffort created for service->PO created in
> > factory->alert/email sent to customer-> order received from
> > factory->services invoice generated
> >
> > We are looking to be able to flexibly customize the workflow depending
> > on customer classification.  Any thoughts are experience?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > James
> >
>


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Re: Workflow Engine - Ofbiz

[Jacques Le Roux <ja...@les7arts.com>]

Hi James,

Long ago OFBiz had a workflow. It was even used as a basis for Shark workflow[1]

Then OFBiz workflow was abandoned and replaced by an EDA Architecture[2][3]

In some cases the EDA Architecture has been considered by some people to be abused [4][5] which is something else.

Nobody never seriously worked back on workflows in OFBiz. Since then some people asked kinda the same question than yours, notably evoking Activiti[6]

[1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/OFBiz+Attic#OFBizAttic-Worflow
[2] look for "OFBiz Workflow" in https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/Is+OFBiz+for+Me
[3] https://s.apache.org/zdqwf
[4] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-4501
[5] https://markmail.org/message/fbjai67yvszkhqe3
[6] https://ofbiz.markmail.org/search/Activiti+

HTH

Jacques

Le 20/09/2019 à 14:21, james@productive1.com a écrit :
> Team - Has anyone ever used a Workflow engine in Ofbiz that allows for
> you to change the workflow of an Ofbiz process.  For example:
>
> Order is placed->Workeffort created for service->PO created in
> factory->alert/email sent to customer-> order received from
> factory->services invoice generated
>
> We are looking to be able to flexibly customize the workflow depending
> on customer classification.  Any thoughts are experience?
>
> Thanks,
>
> James
>