I have begun work on a new project as well called Open Business Engine (OBE for short). OBE is a workflow engine written in Java, designed to be the primary controller for application flow. It supports execution of tasks synchronously and aysnchronously. It also supports conditions which can have an unlimited number of different result case types. The first draft of the engine is done (and should be released in the very near future). OBE also comes with a GUI design tool called OBEDesigner as well as an remote administration tool (called...you guessed it...OBEAdmin).
FOAF updates: Trust rankings are now exported, making the data available to other users and websites. An external FOAF URI has been added, allowing users to link to an additional FOAF file.
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