Dynamic Prop instead of Workflow

[Dan Connelly <ds...@adelphia.net>]

Let me retract my recent offer (under Re: I'm back) in which I signed up for
the Workflow project.  (But leave me on the mailing list.)   The formulation
of  the "Workflow Processing" TODO item is a bit too grandiose for my sense
of the Struts mission.  (It goes too far into Business Process and well
adrift of the target of a universal MVC framework for web development, IMO.)

I will volunteer, instead, for the "ActionForms With Dynamic Properties"
TODO item.  This is a limited form of Workflow, and a functionality I have
always associated with the MVC framwork.  Struts is a "web-end" enabler, not
a replacement for existing business process tools.  Struts cannot redo, for
example, SAP or BizTalk.

But maybe I'm just confused.  What does it mean (as Workflow mdeling for
MVC) that "business logic (now encoded in Action classes) can be subdivided
into individual work Tasks."?   Wouldn't adding that structure put Struts on
a collision course with BizTalk?


----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Connelly" <ds...@adelphia.net>
To: <st...@jakarta.apache.org>; <Cr...@morganstanley.com>
Sent: Saturday, May 12, 2001 7:22 AM
Subject: Re: I'm back! -- workflow "include"


> Hey.  What a coincidence!
>
> My boss had just asked "Do you know of any good web workflow, Dan?"  And
> then, to my rescue, Craig T. is back.
>
> Of course I immediately told my boss that Struts was the way to go.   Just
a
> knee-jerk response.   I may regret not thinking more about this before
> answering.  (My boss is already painfully aware of my predeliction for
> bleeding-edge software.  Situation needs managing ......)
>
>
> Count me in.
>
> However, I do need a workflow demo really quick.   Can't wait for Struts
> 1.1.
>
> Has anyone got a minimal workflow example app in Struts?   (Something
> simple:  Inbox / Outbox job dispatch would be good enough.)
>
> Has anyone used the new "include" attribute on <action> to produce some
> workflow through "scripting??"   (As suggested by Craig M.)
>
>
> BTW.  My boss, being a boss, wants a web "monitor" function by which the
> workload can be observed and balanced (dynamically) by a "supervisor."
Add
> that to the Workflow TODO list.
>
> Dan Connelly
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Craig Tataryn" <Cr...@morganstanley.com>
> To: <st...@jakarta.apache.org>; <st...@jakarta.apache.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 1:55 PM
> Subject: I'm back!
>
>
> > Hi guys, I haven't been participating lately in the mailing list because
> > I recently moved from the US back to Canada so I haven't had too much
> > spare time.  Any how, now that I am settled in I would like to start
> > work on the Struts Workflow TODO.  I was wondering if anyone other than
> > my self and Nic would be interested in participating?
> >
> > Also, my webserver was down the other day.  The owner had to do some
> > maintenance.  It's back up, and actually instead of using the old us-eh
> > address to get to my struts tutorial you can get to it via:
> >
> > http://www.computer-programmer.org/articles/struts/
> >
> > Ted, can you update your web page to point to the new
> > computer-programmer address?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > <tataryn:craig/>
> >
>