Re: Server-side workflow engine (Win32)?

Bob Dawson wrote:
I was thinking about ditching the whole visual designer altogether. :)

The visual representation of process is much of the point.

The point of what? Building a *server* side workflow? I'm all for
visual designers for non-visual code, but IMO, that's a "nice to have",
not an essential thing.

There's an entire enterprise market sector here (Business Process
Management) that goes way beyond MM or ECO, and the newest stuff is being
written on top of WF if it's Windows based.

Understood, but IMO, MM and ECO are closer to providing that than our
ruminations here. :)

Actually it is if you're working with manufacturing control. It's absolutely
common for embedded devices, and program as state-machine is a very workable
approach.

Ok, but IMO, that's quite a niche.

(http://www.ibrightsolutions.co.uk/products/products.htm), which are
actually intended to support the design of simulation engines.
That particular component set seems to be a bit overkill.

They're simulation support components from a company that appears to do
simulations for a living--so yes, they're rather specialized

And ISTM, those components are going after that kind of niche.

Eh, I wouldn't want that.

There has to be a main program logic somewhere. Putting it into a state
machine module strikes me as superior to putting it into a 'main' form.

Who said anything about a "main form"? This is *server* side logic
where the server might have to support multiple state machines, or
perhaps plug-in state machines dynamically, etc. There are many reasons
IMO, why not creating something like a TStateMachineApplication object
is appealing.

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Brian Moelk
Brain Endeavor LLC
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