[stp-user] JWT project : Successful creation review & Kickoff meeting

[Alain Boulze <alain.boulze@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone,

I'm pleased to forward the following annoucement about the JWT project 
to you ... Please note that the Telco/Webex kickoff project should take 
place on next February 5th (TBC).

Best Regards,
--
Alain


The JWT team is pleased to announce that the Java Workflow Toolbox 
project has successfully passed the Eclipse creation review !

This significant step occured on wednesday the 17th in a very nice 
atmosphere and was attended by with both project leads (Florian 
Lautenbacher and Marc Dutoo), Bjorn Freeman-Benson from Eclipse.org, and 
a few people from Tibco who provided a few interesting questions about 
JWT's perspectives.

Please have a look at the announcement of the upcoming JWT Kickoff 
Meeting below.

The Java Workflow Toolbox is an Eclipse project aiming to provide a 
technology-independant business process tooling platform, in order to 
allow the developer to edit and test his business processes whatever the 
target business process grammar standard, the representation model used 
to edit the process, and the target business process engine. JWT's 
community hails from all over the world and gathers individuals and 
organisations with strong backgrounds in the field of Business Process 
Management tooling  among them the University of Augsburg, Open Wide SA, 
Objectweb, eMundo Gmbh, the Eclipse STP Project, jBoss, Tibco, Shanghai 
JiaoTong University.


Kickoff meeting
===============

The more administrative and organisational steps are in the process of 
being taken care of.

However, now comes the very important stage of actually starting to "do 
things" - analysis, architecture, API definition, implementation and 
testing, interacting with the community about the product, refining, in 
order to finally and hopefully having something that demonstrates the 
feasability of the idea, that is actually useful, and that actually puts 
forward the issue of BPM tooling standardisation.



In this perspective, a telco / Webex (thanks to Tibco) kickoff meeting 
will be scheduled at the beginning of february. The proposed date is 
feb. the 5th, and alternate dates would be the 7th and 8th.

Its goals are to help interested parties know each other and discover 
their respective interests in JWT, be it expertise or solutions in the 
BPM tooling or BPM standardisation tooling fields, experience of BPM 
standardisation or genericity problematics on the representation or 
grammar mapping levels, BPM engines knowledge...

It will consists in three parts :

* general interested parties presentation (including every board member 
- anybody interested will have talk time). The point is to help foster 
further collaboration between actors but also fields. 15 minutes max 
each including questions.

* architecture : anyone having experience in tackling the BPM tooling  
standardisation and genericity problematics is invited to present & 
showcase their architecture. The point is to have a starting point for 
the architectural analysis leading to the specifications. At least 30-40 
minutes each.

* actions to be taken : administrative ones, next steps on all levels & 
dissemination. This last part is very important since JWT is an open 
source project gathering very different partners.


Kickoff meeting preparation
===========================

In order to be as efficient as possible, and since a physical meeting is 
not possible, the kickoff meeting should be well prepared. That includes :
* anyone interested to attend, please register by answering this email 
or directly contacting a project lead

* anyone interested to do a presentation, please register by answering 
this email or directly contacting a project lead
  * specify the wanted alloted time, subject and which part of the 
kickoff meeting it goes in
  * please provide the slides in advance so they may be exposed on the 
wiki for everyone else to read.

Look for new information, upcoming presentations agenda and 
contributions to the meeting on 
http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/JWT_Kickoff_Meetingstp-user
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