Package README (CVS ver. 1.3)

CMFOpenFlow Copyright 2002 of RefLab (www.reflab.it)
 Ciriaci Francesco
 Vincenzo Di Somma
 Riccardo Lemmi


CMFOpenFlow is based on the Icube product OpenFlow,
Copyright 2002 Icube (www.icube.it www.openflow.it)

Overview

  Problem:

    The design and development of workflow applications can be often divided
    into
    two different parts. The first part, Workflow Systems Management, concerns
    the
    creation of a custom framework, data structures and metadata to manage the
    distribution of tasks and to store the information collected during each
    task.
    The second part, Workflow Applications Management, is associated with
    creating
    the user applications and providing workflow-oriented hooks to assist those
    applications in managing workflow instances, objects and reports.

  Goals of CMFOpenFlow :

    Provide tools which simplify Workflow Systems Management activities by
    providing
    a workflow engine that will be able to build the Process Definition Map,
    handle
    the Process Definition Instance, and help to provide worklist interaction
    hooks
    and reports, as well as realtime Process Instance history and statistical
    reports.

    - Provide general-purpose support for Workflow exception handling

    - Provide support for easily modifying the Process Definitions to adapt the
      workflow as needed, using statistical and exception-tracking reports as
      well as
      changing workflow conditions.

    - Provide support for simplifying Workflow Applications Management by
    providing
      hooks and methodologies for creating and managing workflow-generated
      objects and
      data.

    - Provide integration for CMF/Plone site.

Requirements

  Tested with Zope 2.5.1 and 2.6.1

License

  CMFOpenflow is released under the General Public Licence (GPL).

Installation

  Unpack the .tgz and put the CMFOpenflow directory in ...lib/python/Products
  Restart Zope

  Standalone

    Add a 'Openflow (Reflab)' object to your folder.

  Tool

    To instantiate portal_openflow in your CMF/Plone portal, create an external
    method with:

      - Id : Install_CMFOpenflow

      - Module Name : CMFOpenflow.Install

      - Function Name : install

    and test it.

Home page and documentation

  http://www.reflab.it/community

Bug reports

  Bug reports may be sent to riccado@reflab.it

Mailing list

  collective-cmfopenflow-request@lists.sourceforge.net