XFlow: A document centric workflow framework

This software allows the definition of workflows for collaborative document procedures. In this framework, called XFlow and largely based on XSLT Processing Model, the workflows are described by means of a new XML application called XFlowML (XFlow Markup Language). XFlowML describes the document workflow using an agent-based approach. Each agent can participate to the workflow with one or more roles, defined as XPath expressions, based on a hierarchical role chart. An XFlowML document contains as many templates as agent roles participating to the workflow. The document workflow engine constitutes the run-time execution support for the document processing by implementing the XFlowML constructs. XFlow has been implemented with an extensive use of XML technologies (XSLT, XPath, XForms, SVG) and open-source tools (Cocoon, Tomcat, mySQL).

Questo software è stato ampiamente documentato in diverse pubblicazioni: XFlow: an Xml-Based Document-Centric Workflow in Lecture notes in computer science XFlow: an Xml-Based Document-Centric Workflow in Web Information System Engineering (WISE), New York XFlow - An xml-based document-centric workflow. How to stress XML technologies in a web application Inoltre è stato installato presso la di tta SOGEI con la quale l'Istituto di Informaticae Telematica del CNR ha stipulato du contratti di collaborazione tra il 2003 e il 2004