[daisy] Daisy Questions

[Paul VanWechel]

Hi,

I have three questions:

1. Will the planned jbpm support allow the use of the import/export command
line tool as a component in a workflow? e.g. other command line tools may
optionally be invoked for additional processing on a batch of exported data,
with processed data then roundtripped back into the repository. We were
unsure if jBPM had a component that supported shell calls though.

2. What is the timeline for jBPM support in Daisy?

3. Were other workflow engines considered, and if so, what were the reasons
for selecting against them? For example, we noticed that Magnolia used
OpenWFE.

We are currently evaluating open source CMS for our intranet, and the
workflow component is important to us. Our files often require several
processing steps by cmd line invoked tools, and files can be 100MB+ in size.
We were unsure if jBPM was more suited to email task lists instead of larger
batch processing problems (that have task lists in the process flow). Some
of the commercial products we have considered, claimed that Daisy would not
be able to handle large files using jBPM. We understand workflow support is
not included yet, but our project will not ramp up for 1-2 months anyway.

Thanks,
Paul
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