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Open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's sources. Some consider it as a philosophy, and others consider it as a pragmatic methodology. Before open source became widely adopted, developers and producers used a variety of phrases to describe the concept; the term open source gained popularity with the rise of the Internet and its enabling of diverse production models, communication paths, and interactive communities.The complexity of such communication relates to Brooks' law, and it is also described by Eric S. Raymond, "Brooks predicts that as your number of programmers N rises, work performed scales as N but complexity and vulnerability to bugs rises as N-squared. N-squared tracks the number of communications paths (and potential code interfaces) between developers' code bases." -- "The Revenge of the Hackers". 2000. Subsequently, open source software became the most prominent face of open source.
The open source model can allow for the concurrent use of different agendas and approaches in production, in contrast with more centralized models of development such as those typically used in commercial software companies.Raymond, Eric S. The Cathedral and the Bazaar. ed 3.0. 2000.
History
Those involved with journalism and open source intelligence used the earliest known practices of open source that focused on accessibility rather than modification of sources. Software developers used to commonly release their code under public domain until they wanted to control how such freely accessible sources are modified and distributed. Developers, like the Free Software Foundation, began to license their work, but they still kept it as free software. More on [ Open source ]
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CuteFlow - Document Circulation System - Web-based document circulation tool (Open Source). Users are able to define documents which are sent step by step to every user in a list.
Meta Description: [ The world's largest development and download repository of Open Source code and applications ]
Enhydra JaWE - Graphical Java Workflow Process Editor - Open source graphical workflow process editor supporting WfMC specifications. Can be used to view and edit XPDL files.
Meta Description: [ enhydra.org ]
Enhydra Shark - Open Source workflow engine and client applications (admin and worklist handler) based on WfMC and OMG specification.
Meta Description: [ enhydra.org ]
jBpm - Open Source workflow management system based on J2EE. It runs on a JBoss application server and is available under the Lesser General Public License (LGPL). Contains project description, system documentation and links to the source code. Maintained by Tom Baeyens.
Meta Description: [ The Professional Open Source Company ]
List of Open Source Workflow Projects - Maintained by Dutch consultants Topicus. They list version, language, status and license of more than a dozen open source workflow projects, and provide a short summary of each project's focus. Owner Michiel Schipper also maintains a Blog on workflow related topics.
Meta Description: [ In this blog we share our discoveries in our search for open source workflow management tools. For tools that we find interesting, we download the code, try to execute the engine, or even get our reference process model working. ]
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Open Business Engine - Open source workflow engine written in Java, designed to execute workflow definitions written in XPDL. Designed to be embedded in an application, used as a stand-alone server, or used in a J2EE container.
Meta Description: [ The world's largest development and download repository of Open Source code and applications ]
OpenFlow Introduction - Open source workflow engine which models activity-based workflow. Most of the information and documentation of OpenFlow is in Italian, but the English-language introduction is well-written.
OpenWFE - Java-based open source workflow engine.
WfMOpen workflow engine - WfMOpen is a lightweight J2EE based workflow engine with OMG like API, using XPDL as process description language. Open Source.
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Meta Description: [ wftk will be a workflow toolkit including components to define processes as well as an engine to run and track active processes. ]
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