Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Implemented the State Machine

I have just finished with implementing the pilot version of the application that I had proposed with Windows Workflow. The concepts are now much more transparent to me than they were in the beginning. There are various trade offs, that I have observed as a part of the implementaion process. I am presently thinking about various enhancements possible to the pilot version. Now I want to find out if its possible at all to call one state activity from another state.

Friday, October 19, 2007

WIndows Workflow Foundation

I have lately joined a financial services company as a senior dotNet devleoper. I am now analysing the systems used by the organisation for processing secured and unsecured loans. Till this time the business analysts have been using a custom built application for manipulating the rules used by the loan process. The buisness has now proposed to migratethe system and I as a developer has proposed the idea of using WWF for the new implementation . The Business Analysts ar little wary of the fact that their life might be tougher with the new system and they won't have the enough technical knowlwedge to play with the rules. From what I have known the windows workflow, it should still be possible to the upload the rules into the system from XML files and the manipulation will still be easy.