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M.Sc. Thesis - A. Kamil; McMaster University - Computing and Software – eHealth
We couldn’t complete the work with Version 0.1 due to some missing packages
and classes (entity beans classes, interface classes) and no information is available
in the tool user manual or the source demo on how to get these packages, what
prevent the tool engine from running successfully and complete the process
design. Version 2.0 also does not run due to significant errors listed in the coming
bullets.
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With version 0.1, in order to run the workflow engine, users/developers will have
to write the business logic inside the business components. However, in version
2.0, users are not required to write the business logic in the J2EE code.
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The NOVA workflow tool is free to download and use but it is not an open source
tool.
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The available NOVA workflow version 2.0 downloadable file is not compatible
with all computer operating systems. The author’s suggestion was to download
eclipse separately, then transfer the feature and plugin files to the features and
plugin files of eclipse. This suggestion was given after contacting the author.
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There is no substantial difference between the NOVA workflow version 2.0 and
version 0.1, though version 2.0 requires adding more codes than with version 0.1.
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Running the workflow engine of NOVA workflow version 2.0 still requires
configuring the tool database.
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There are significant errors with the NOVA workflow version 2.0 eclipse file. It is
described as follows:
o To run NOVA workflow version 2.0, the user needs to download the latest
SDK package tool files version 21.1 for android. The NOVA workflow
version 2.0 tool uses the SDK path C:\cliresearch\tools\android-sdkwindows to download the package tool for android in eclipse. The
specified path address is not editable and cannot be reset due to the
copyright of the tool. In order to be able to run the tool, we had to solve
this issue by creating a path address with the same address mentioned
above to let the eclipse tool work and configure the SDK manager.
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