[jwt-dev] JWT Workflow Editor 0.4.0 and AgilPro 1.4.0 available

[Marc Dutoo <marc.dutoo@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi fellow PEtALS users and contributors,

I am happy to announce the first release of the Java Workflow Tooling 
(JWT) project. The aim of the JWT project is to ease the modeling, 
administration and execution of workflows and business processes. The 
Workflow Editor (WE) that we released is a first step towards this goal 
and enables the modeling of workflows that can be executed afterwards. 
In parallel we are working on SOA oriented features and transformations 
from/to the Eclipse BPMN editor as well as to XPDL-code, which will be 
able to be deployed on the Bonita BPM Engine that has been recently 
integrated with the PEtALS ESB. The workflow editor provides several 
constructs that are necessary to model an executable workflow 
(applications, data, roles, etc.) and provides different views for one 
workflow (currently a business and a technical view). It integrates 
easily into your Eclipse workbench and is itself based on the EMF and 
GEF framework. You can find more information about JWT and the WE here: 
http://www.eclipse.org/jwt/components/we/index.php.

I am also happy to announce that we deployed the newest version of 
AgilPro on SourceForge. AgilPro is a toolset with a similar aim and 
consists of a modeling tool (AgilPro LiMo) as well as a previewer for 
modeled processes (AgilPro Simulator). AgilPro LiMo builds upon the JWT 
WE and is an RCP application with additional features. You can e.g. not 
only model your process, but also generate BPEL code from that process 
or create an HTML documentation from your workflow. The AgilPro 
Simulator enables to preview your process without having a process 
engine installed. It is a desktop tool which can open existing 
applications on your desktop PC such as the Internet browser, Adobe PDF 
files, OpenOffice documents, etc. The AgilPro tools are available under 
GPL at https://sourceforge.net/projects/agilpro.

Since the last version we made the usage of AgilPro LiMo (and JWT WE) 
much easier, extended the underlying meta-model, improved the overview 
page and added much more features which you should check out right now! 
I'd like to say thanks to my team for their support and assistance!

If you have any feedback or comments, please don't hesitate to publish 
them as a bug on the Eclipse Bugzilla (see www.eclipse.org/jwt 
<http://www.eclipse.org/jwt>) or on SourceForge or contact us 
under jwt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:jwt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx> or 
support@xxxxxxxxxx <mailto:support@xxxxxxxxxx>.

Best regards,

Florian Lautenbacher, University of Augsburg, DE
Marc Dutoo, Open Wide, FR
JWT Project Leads