General capability questions

[cthompson1]

I'm evaluating Activiti as well as other similar products.  I like what I see so far but have the following questions (and not a ton of time to dig into installing a demo)

1.  Can the workflow itself be used within another application.  In other words I have an application that has a dozen or so modules with documents and I'd like to allow for those document to be routed, is this feasible without moving documents into a total Activiti environment?

2.  I see the "claim" function in demonstrations, can a task be assigned to a user or group with an implied claim (bypassing this manual step).

3.  Can routing be impacted by data within the document itself?  For example if there is a cost of over X can it route to one person or group and if <= X to another?

4.  Does the system allow both parallel and serial routing?  If parallel is possible can rules be established that say 3 of 5 users must approve for the document to proceed to the next step?

5.  Can an end user (with appropriate permissions) eliminate a step or steps from the predefined work flow?

Thank you.

[jbarrez]

1. Sure, Activiti is an embeddale Java engine. Simply add the relevant jars to your project and you're good to go.

2. yes

3. yes, that would have to be modeled in the process definition with for example exclusive gateways.

4. Yes. That would be the multi instance behaviour.

5. No, that's a feature we don't have yet.