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02:21, Wednesday, 9 October 2002
petridish: the petri net framework is yet-another BobProject(tm).
I'd originally planned on building werkflow using blissed, which is a finite-state-machine framework. But, then, a few folks chatted with me about Petri nets, and I did a lot of reading from CiteSeer. I have decided that yes, Petri nets are indeed the way to go.
Hence, the new project.
No release yet, but just trying to raise awareness, since workflow seems to be a somewhat hot meme these days.
TrackBack
Petri Nets. Hmm. I studied them at the university and never heard from them since (5 years ago). We used them to design real-time systems and implement them in Ada. It's a nice concept. Sort of UML's Activity diagram ++.
Aslak
Yes, I've look at PNML, and it seems to not be quite robust enough to describe the nets buildable with petridish.
I've also seen the mentioned paper (and several others by the same author) and they have influenced this work.
Thanks for the great comments, guys.
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bob, October 10, 2002 12:37 AM
Well, it's pretty clear that lots of us nerds would like a Petri net implementation embued with that special McWhirter magic.
Not sarcasm, by the way -- Jaxen is quite cool, as is drools, and I'm a fan, in general, of your blog.
Oops -- made you blush...
