How to semantically annotate a process model?
During my research I got confronted with a lot of different approaches how Semantic Business Process Management (SBPM) can be done. This means in the first step, that the process models need a semantic...
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Eclipse Summit Europe 2008
Right now Eclipse Summit Europe just happens in Ludwigsburg and many many people from all different kinds of projects are here to explain what they are doing, how their tools can be used or simply to...
View ArticleJWT welcomes its new mentor!
The whole team of the Eclipse technology project Java Workflow Tooling (JWT) welcomes it's mentor John Graham. After we struggled for the last two years with the formerly unknown Eclipse processes (but...
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Reviewing the JWT metamodel
In JWT we are working on all kinds of tools for workflows. One of these tools is the workflow editor (WE) which allows to model all kinds of workflows in order to deploy them to a workflow engine or...
View ArticleTalk at EclipseCon 2009
Our talk with the title "Make Your Processes Executable!" for EclipseCon 2009 has been accepted. Alas, it has been shortened from half an hour to ten minutes only.For a university in Germany having a...
View ArticleTalk at Eclipse Forum Europe 09
In April, just right after EclipseCon, the Eclipse Forum Europe (EFE) is happening in Mainz, Germany. EFE is organized together with JAX and SOACON, so it offers insight into many interesting themes:...
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Aspects for type-safe extensions of process models
Did you ever face the problem that you have a process model and would like to generate code and execute it on a process engine?There are different possibilities: either you model your process directly...
View ArticleLooking forward to EclipseCon - to meet you!
Next week EclipseCon 2009 will already start in Santa Clara, California. I guess most of you will look forward to have the best conference ever. Not only because the huge amount of interesting talks,...
View ArticleLatest findings of the CAOS Report 2008
No, this is not a new version of the CHAOS Report of the Standish Group which reports about how many IT projects failed in the last year again. This is about a report concerning the Commercial Adoption...
View ArticleModel and Execute!
The focus of the talks that I attended today at EclipseCon, was about modeling and execution. The first talk (after the really great keynote that others on PlanetEclipse already posted about) was about...
View ArticleMeetings, meetings, meetings
Yesterday I didn't have the chance to listen to many talks at EclipseCon, because I used the opportunity to meet several people. After the keynote in the morning I sat together with John Graham, the...
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Google Summer of Code and Eclipse Forum 2009
Now that EclipseCon has passed by and probably most people are back in the office again (I hope your trip back was better than mine where we needed to interrupt our flight on Iceland because of a...
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Eclipse Forum Europe in the sun, but one cloud
Today started Eclipse Forum Europe in Mainz, Germany. The weather is lovely, so it's really difficult to convince himself to go to the talks. But there are so many interesting ones that this won't be a...
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Summary JAX, SOACON, Eclipse Forum Europe
Did you have the chance to visit this years JAX? I thought it will be mostly about Java-related technologies. Surely, I have already heard about Scala, Rails, Groovy or JRuby, but the huge amount of...
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JWT and Galileo M7
Yesterday our milestone M7 for the Galileo release of the Java Workflow Tooling (JWT) project has been finalized and published. As we are part of the yearly release train we are bound to the deadlines...
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Article about JWT in Eclipse magazine
If you are interested in process modeling or workflow execution, you might want to have a look in the newest German-speaking Eclipse magazine ("eclipse Magazin"). In their current issue there is an...
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Everything prepared for Galileo
Last night I fixed the last bug for Eclipse Galileo. Just in time! Today the release candidate RC5 is built for version 0.6 of our project Java Workflow Tooling (JWT) and this release candidate will be...
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JWT 0.6 released
Today, as part of Galileo, the newest release of JWT, the Java Workflow Tooling project, has been released. Java Workflow Tooling in version 0.6 brings open business process design and development to...
View ArticleLowering Open Source Contribution Barriers
Chris Aniszczyk recently talked in his blog about how the barriers for contributors could be lowered. One of his topics was "how about us making it easier for users to file bugs?"He then talked about a...
View ArticleViews on process models
We just finalized an article explaining how users can write their own views on a process model using the extension points of the JWT Workflow Editor. Thereby, we describe the aspect-oriented mechanism...
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