Over the years since FIM was first beta’d as ILM2 we have seen some cool workflows be released to open source. This is my review of the workflows I can find that are open source. First let me salute everyone who has contributed to the FIM and MIM community with these big undertakings. That said I am trying to give guidance to my readers as to what is the most useful in various situations and so I will make specific recommendations.
My colleague Joe Zamora, a talented developer, who has been instrumental in helping us advance our knowledge of custom workflows, has just launched his own blog: CShark.
His first post is on how to “Generate AccountName in ILM2 custom workflow activity” and it came in response to a question in the ILM 2 connect forum entitled: Custom Workflow Activity to Generate samAccountName.
Go Joe Go!
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So by now all of you know that understanding Windows Workflow Foundation is going to be quite helpful in implementing ILM 2.
Having lived 9 of the last 12 months in Redmond, WA, I now understand a lot more about sprinkling
So I thought I would provide a sprinkling of understanding about Windows Workflow Foundation: a categorization of the built in workflows.
| Cateory | Activity | Composite | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conditional | Invoke Web Service | ||
| Conditional | Conditional Activity Group | ||
| Conditional | IfElse | ||
| Conditional | Policy | Akin to a switch statement or Select Case | |
| Conditional | While | ||
| Custom | Code | ||
| Error | Compensate | ||
| Error | Fault Handler | ||
| Error | Throw | ||
| Flow | Delay | ||
| Flow | EventDriven | ||
| Flow | Listen | X | 2+ event driven |
| Flow | Parallel | x | 2+ sequence for each |
| Flow | State | ||
| Flow | Sequence | X | |
| Flow | SetState | ||
| Flow | StateInitialization | X | |
| Flow | Suspend | ||
| Flow | Terminate | ||
| Flow | Transaction Scope |
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Brad Turner - Sep 3, 2008
Very nice David, I would also urge readers to check out Mark Gabarra’s blog for information relating WF and ILM 2. I also hope that we’ll be able to goad our own Paul Divan into bringing his experiences to the blogosphere!
