About

This blog is meant as a development / technical notebook for OpenWFEru, an open source Ruby workflow and BPM engine.

My name is John Mettraux, I’m OpenWFE founder and project leader.

After all, this is an open source project, and its development process should be as open and transparent as possible.

When started in 2001, OpenWFE was a Java project, but since the last days of 2006, OpenWFE has been ported to Ruby, this effort is named OpenWFEru (nickname : Ruote or sometimes Rufus). This blog is focused on OpenWFEru now.

See also my profile on Ohloh as an open source developer. My code is mainly located at the GitHub.

You can reach me at jmettraux@openwfe.org.

6 Responses to “About”

  1. Tom Sawada Says:
    May 7, 2007 at 7:55 am

    Hi メトローさん, thks for dropping by. It’s a kind of Joke since they always use same temlage. I looked at your BLOG and found it very interestinng, though I am not sikillful enough to enderstand what it is all about. Let’s communicate hopefully over the MyBlogLog at http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/members/Tomoaki/
    Regards

  2. Heinz Kößler Says:
    May 23, 2007 at 6:54 pm

    Hello John,

    I’ve read about your efforts to port OpenWFE to ruby. Does that mean that you only want to develop the ruby version of OpenWFE instead of the java branch?
    I’m currently looking for an adequate Workflowengine to separate program flow from program logic (it’s not an BPEL-thing it’s only about putting pieces of program logic (the activities are program code) into a workflow which can maintained using a graphical editor.). This is a java project but if OpenWFE will switch over to ruby it is not a suitable joice for me.

    Greetings
    Heinz

  3. John Mettraux Says:
    May 23, 2007 at 10:30 pm

    Hi Heinz,

    I’m almost alone in this effort, it’s hard to ride two big horses at the same time, so yes, I’ll be focusing on OpenWFEru while maintaining OpenWFEja.

    You should have a try at OpenWFEru over JRuby. JRuby gives you the productivity gain of Ruby while still being able to leverage your Java environment.

    Best regards, I wish you success for your projects, nice cars btw,

    John

  4. Heinz Kößler Says:
    July 2, 2007 at 6:22 pm

    Hi John,

    please apologize my late response. I was in duty with many other things…
    Thank you for your quick answer. In the meantime we investigated several other frameworks and maybe we’ll have to customize one. I’m afraid OpenWFEru is not the right joice due to our other environment.

    Thank you for the “car compliment”.

    I think OpenWFE is a good thing. Since you are alone, maybe you need some help? Just drop me a mail (you know my email).

    Greetings
    Heinz

  5. John Mettraux Says:
    July 2, 2007 at 11:15 pm

    Hi Heinz,

    thanks for your interest. Thanks a lot for the help offer, if you think you can bring something to OpenWFE[ru] please do, I don’t know where are your motivations.

    Please spread the good word about BPM in general, best regards,

    John

  6. Israel Mirsky Says:
    December 19, 2007 at 6:08 pm

    Hi John,
    We’re in the process of developing an agency that does content filtering and blog news destinations for large brands, hosted on WordPress. The microsite/ branded news destinations we’re anticipating will quite possibly be very high traffic. I have this wild, possibly stupid idea that we could cost effectively build this over Amazon’s services with an eye to the kind of scalability we need. Please contact me if you think this is possible or would like to help.

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