November 16, 2005
Windows Workflow Foundation in the works
I recently learnt about the release of a beta of Windows Workflow Foundation, a .NET library which is currently in the works both for Windows client and server operating systems.
Among other more sophisticate possibilities, workflow can be sequential, which to a large extent means that the computer is in charge and outsources some tasks to human beings, or state-oriented, which means that the human beings decide the actual transitions from state to state according to their own judgment and the role of the computer is basically to limit the acceptable transitions for each state and track the status. But this is probably easy to say but awkward to code in a model that gives the level of flexibility that LSPs need. Hopefully this library in the pipeline comes to help to make it simpler for developers.
The RTM (Release-to-Manufacturing) version of this framework is still a few months away, but I think that its mere existence increases significantly the chances that both Tool Vendors consider workflow in their product roadmaps, and other existing frameworks (or future copycat frameworks) empower developers so that they can add more features to their tools.
posted by Josep Condal
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