The Open Source Zone

OpenWFE not only features a workflow engine, but also a full fledged Business Process Management Suite. OpenWFE contains these features and many more:

• a worklist component for storing workitems (tasks) for participants,
• an APRE component, allowing you to implement automated agents into your work flows,
• Droflo, a web-based flow designer,
• and a well-documented REST interface and several libraries to access it, with more on the way.

OpenWFE can run completely standalone without any Application Server, requiring only a Java SDK (1.4.x) or better.

OpenWFE also includes several external access libraries to facilitate access to the REST interface through a variety of languages, including:

• OpenWFE-dotnet, A .NET library written in C# which allows you to access all of OpenWFE's REST functions through one easy-to-implement .NET API.
• OpenWFE-pyya is the equivalent written in Python, and it includes a python version of the OpenWFE APRE (automated participants runtime environment).
• OpenWFE-perl, a module currently in development, which will allow for integration with the power of OpenWFE through your own custom Perl applications or web services.
• OpenWFE-ruby, a connector between Ruby and OpenWFE. An APRE in Ruby will be implemented soon.

OpenWFE is also embeddable. Magnolia will be using OpenWFE as its embedded workflow engine from its 3.0 release.