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Task-oriented Client Development
I am interested if anyone has developed a client that is intended to present tasks to people. Has anyone worked with any APIs for the presentation of tasks to business users? I am working on a workflow system that exposes a web service interface intended to support development with clients in many technologies. My current design is to implement the OASIS standard BPEL For People (BPEL4People). What I don't have is any experience developing this kind of client. I'd like some any insight into if anyone has used this interface, and if so, what were the hurdles.
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Permalink Reply by Daniel Leuck on
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Hi Craig,
We have worked with Jira. It has a nice Java plugin API. Note: We are an Atlassian shop, so I am biased. That being said, I have done dozens of installations, and people really seem to like the task management.
Ive read about BPEL4People, but havent had a chance to work with it.
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Permalink Reply by Craig Peters on
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Thanks for pointing me to Jira. It looks interesting, but not much similar to the kind of API I'm working on. Jira doesn't seem to have a workflow system for orchestrating work between people and systems. Take a look at the IBM whitepapers for some more background.
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Permalink Reply by J. David Beutel on
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I've done some work on the Kuali Financial System, which is a client of Kuali Enterprise Workflow. For UI insight, you could look at its action list.
For API insight, I suggest:
1. synchronous, because users want feedback,
2. simple for the client callback code, and
3. fast for clients and tests.
So, I recommend an API embedded with the client. Its callbacks can take advantage of second-level caching of the client database. XML binding and XPath are not as simple or fast, so I don't recommend marshaling the client data to a web service.
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