Path: news.easynews.com!core-easynews!newsfeed1.easynews.com!easynews.com!easynews!news-feed01.roc.ny.frontiernet.net!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: bharni1@yahoo.com (Oracleuser) Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.tools Subject: Re: Oracle Workflow Date: 18 Apr 2003 12:12:26 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Lines: 35 Message-ID: References: <3e9e8e17$1@news.uni-rostock.de> <3E9F1A81.2060105@netscape.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.26.122.13 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1050693146 32567 127.0.0.1 (18 Apr 2003 19:12:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 18 Apr 2003 19:12:26 GMT Xref: core-easynews comp.databases.oracle.tools:58518 X-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 12:12:03 MST (news.easynews.com) Hi, It all depends what you are trying to do with Oracle workflow. I used Oracle workflow long back with Oracle Interoffice. We used it to design/create a business process and the graphical interface is very good. We stopped using it because Oracle discontinued Oracle Interoffice product. If you want to integrate your mail system with workflow it totally up to you. If you are using Oracle mail I dont see any problem using Oracle Workflow with Oracle mail. In Oracle Workflow you define your process and each stage in the process is nothing but a PL/SQL program which may take an "in" parameter and spits out a "out" parameter. Once you finish designing the business process and you create this on the database it not thing but a PL/SQL package with lot of procedures and functions. Oracle Workflow can be used stanalone and it does not need OAS or Web DB. Although you need to install PL/SQL toolkit and OWF objects. Coming to your questions whether Oracle Workflow can be used with mail, the answer is it depends what you are trying to do. Bharni Frank wrote in message news:<3E9F1A81.2060105@netscape.net>... > Carsten Eichholz wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Does anyone have experience in pratice with Oracle Workflow? > > I'd be interested if and where this system is used in practice and > > what the opinion and experiences are. (perhaps compared to > > other WfM Applications) > > I have used it, but cannot compare to other workflow apps, as I > have used none in combination with oracle... > Hasn't changed much since 8i, web based interface is a bit odd, > but works (although I'd like to see a split in admin and user > screens), design interface works completely different, but > is quite productive, once you get the hang of it.