Posted by Jochem Maas on 11/22/05 15:49

Geoff - Creative Living wrote:
> Hi Mike
>
>
>>I'm not aware of any. I am kind of developing my own for my current
>>Materials System.
>
>
> Sounds as though, like me, you might just get away with a decision table
> parser rather than a fully-fledged corporate rules engine. though your
> application is a bit more complex than ours.
>
> It's surprising to me that we are faced with rolling our own or working
> with Java - suggests that PHP still has a bit to go as a platform for
> serious business systems.
>
>
>>With jBPM I "hope" I'll be able to change "routing"/approval of
>>electronic documents more easily than it is currently.
>
>
> Are you planning to have PHP run as a servelet within JBoss? Does this
> work reliably? I much prefer to keep things as simple as possible.
>
> As an alternative, I worked briefly on a native PHP Petri-net workflow
> engine with a guy called Tony Marston before we parted ways. He has
> written it up here:
>
> http://www.tonymarston.net/php-mysql/workflow.html

guess I didn't have to point you at that then ;-)

>
>
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