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by Mark Masterson.
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A buzz of blog activity, whose trail of breadcrumbs I found via one of my favourite folk, John Mettraux, led me to some deeply cool stuff. Here's a List O' Links
So what's the fuss about? WfXML-R, which is a codification of WfMC standard interfaces and entities as RESTful resources. This is great stuff, but then, I would think that. This is a moving target, still unfinished -- in particular, the tricky bits about access to a work item, and how to use it to make state changes, are still unspecified. But that doesn't mean that this isn't (potentially) the coolest BPM related stuff that I've seen in the past half year.