The Imixs Workflow project
Today I want to talk about the Imixs workflow project which is under development for more than 5 years. Since the project is based on the Java Enterprise Edition 5 it becomes more stable, flexible and serious. Version 3.0.x based on GlassFish 3 and JEE6 makes the project very powerful and robust. There were a number of simplifications which had made it much more easy to integrate the imixs workflow engine into JEE projects.
Now I am working on version 3.1.0 which is available in a snapshot-release. This new version has some improvements in the Imixs Workflow engine which is the core of the project. But also in this new version, I try to figure out a way to develop JEE web applications in a leaner way without heavy JSF libraries like RichFaces (which is really great stuff). My idea for now is to work with JSF 2.0 in its reference implementation. As this version provides ajax support in a standardized way I believe that rich web applications can be implemented with more usage of javascript - after all jQuery.
So for now everything looks pretty cool in the new version 3.1.0 which is also used in the next version of the Marty framework. Marty is a general workflow framework to simplify the development of business applications based on the imixs workflow project. The result of all this work can be seen in the Imixs Office Workflow project. This project site is only available in german language, but I plan also to provide an international home page.
In the future I will post the status of the current development on this blog.
Posted at 09:28PM Nov 19, 2012
Posted by: Ralph
Category: General
Imixs Workflow on JEE6
I have just started the new release 2.0.2 of the Imixs JEE Workflow. The new version runs on JEE6 application servers like Glassfish V3 and JBoss 6 and it is tested on Glassfish V3.
I would like to invite everyone to comment this project and I invite you to help me in further development of improvements and feature requests.
To get started with the current release of the Imixs JEE Workflow Management System you can just check out the JSF Sample Application (0.0.2-SNAPSHOT) from the source code repository (https://imixs-workflow.dev.java.net/source/browse/imixs-workflow/).
The sample application and also all sub projects of the Imixs Workflow Project are based on maven2 so it is not so hard to get things up and running. I have also written a tutorial which shows the hole picture and helps you for the first steps.
It would be nice if some of you can help me in the current JEE6 develpment.
Posted at 09:40AM Mar 22, 2010
Posted by: Ralph
Category: General
Imixs Workflow API 2.0.1 release
Today I have finally released new version 2.0.1 of the Imixs Workflow API.
Read more on www.imixs.org
Posted at 12:33PM Nov 28, 2009
Posted by: Ralph
Category: General
New! Imixs Workflow Project
I am proud to announce that we started the new Open Source Workflow Project Imixs-Workflow on dev.java.net. This project arise from the ix-workflow project we developed about for more than 3 years. But the new project is much more easy to use. We developed a bunch of simplifications in the Workflow API so the hole project is now much easier to integreate. I would be happy if you can give me some feedback to that project on the project home page.
I will provide a short video next time to show how easy it is building workflow applications based on the API.
Posted at 08:29PM Jul 16, 2009
Posted by: Ralph
Category: General
New Version 1.6 of Imixs IX JEE Workflow
Yesterday I stated to work on new Version 1.6 of IX Workflow API and IX JEE Workflow Server. The new release will include a ReportService. This feature will be implemented as a kind of top-level feature. I decided to include the Report functionality directly into the workflow implementation as lot of people ask for a feature to run reports on a workflow management system.
Read more on
http://www-02.imixs.com:8081/roller/imixsworkflow/
or check out source code :
https://ix-workflow.dev.java.net/source/browse/ix-workflow/
Posted at 08:21PM Sep 01, 2008
Posted by: Ralph
Category: General