From Bussines Rules to Activities
Just want to know that is it possible by means of any tool that I can take some of
the Business Rules (which might be in some predefined format much more baised towards Busseness users along with thier terminology ) and then transfom them as a WWF workflow (not need to be an elobrated workflow model but capture things like creating activity autmoatically , parameters etc ) and intelligent enough to either chose by itself (or prompt in complex cases ) for the type of worlflows i-e
sequential or state machine . Any ideas
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THERAZI] at [2008-2-17]
Hi Razi 
I think what you ask for is not possible or only possible in a very limited way, because :
A Business rule created by a business user should be separated of the process definition, it should limit its behavior or give direction to the behavior, rules are not procedures (i.e the process). I did'nt invent this one look at the Business Rule Manifesto (http://www.businessrulesgroup.org/brmanifesto.htm)
Even if you have the complete set of rules that should be applied to your process; the dependencies between them, how can you infer the process flow ?
Let's take a sample, just a simple rule (wich gives direction to the flow behavior):
"If the Expense Report amount is superior to X then it should be approved".
With this rule the only thing I can infer for my process is that there is an if then else, nothing more or less. It gives no indication of what happens before, after, if this expense report should be persisted for later auditing etc..
