Best practice for interface (new project)

[kurdy]

Hi all,

I am going to use Activiti for a new project. The project characteristics are:

• It's standalone project


• We are free to select framework's (GUI, Grails, Spring)


• We have few process and few users (small)


• The final result should be something like Activiti explorer but with another look an feel

My questions are:

• For GUI framework should I use explorer as base or do you advice to use grail-plugin or an other framework like extjs Surf(I don't like it but if it's the best in the activiti context I will use it)


• If I create an external application using Surf or another framwork is the Form functionnalities are availables ?


• Using an external framework do I have an easy way to get a graphic view of the process ?

Mainly it's not clear for me the purpose of activiti explorer. It is an admin and/or generic application or the base to develop your own application ?

Thanks for your advices.

[trademak]

Hi,

If I understand your requirements I would certainly go for using the Activiti Explorer (Vaadin) as a foundation.
Then you get all the good stuff including the form generation and you'll be able to change it to your requirements where necessary.
Surf was the technology we previously used, so < 5.7. So that is certainly not recommended.

Best regards,