Comments on: Principles for Model-Driven Applications

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By: Håvard Jørgensen

Håvard Jørgensen — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 09:35:03 +0000

Thanks a lot, Jeppe! I deeply appreciate your interest in this work. You are right in that a lot of the principles we present in this blog were discovered during the development of Workware.

Workware was developed as a prototype in a research project during 1997-99. Though we continued to use it in other projects until 2006, few resources were spent on development after 1999, and the core concepts and implementation were not updated. The main objective after 2000 was to facilitate development of a successor as a commercial product by an industrial partner. For various reasons, we were unable to achieve this. In hindsight, working on the PhD turned out to be a dead end.

Some of the posts in this blog describe attempts to implement similar solutions to Workware on different platforms over the last couple of years. A process and project coordination application that we developed on top of Genus (www.genus.biz) is the most complete operational solution so far, but there is no finished product that we can release to outsiders.

By: Jeppe Bundsgaard

Jeppe Bundsgaard — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:30:39 +0000

Hi Håvard,
I recognize a lot of what you write above from reading your thesis. I have reached chapter 6 and I am very fond of what I am reading!

But it seems that you stopped developing Workware…? Is anybody continuing where you left on the application or developing/using the language in any other way?
As I understand from the above and other posts at your blog, there are no good alternatives out there?

I am working on introducing project/workflow management (integrated with groupware) in educational settings (e.g. in order to support project based learning). I am envisaging a kind of Edu-Workware…