Wednesday, November 03, 2004

AntFlow

AntFlow: Hotfolder Driven Workflow and Automation based on Ant "AntFlow builds upon Apache Ant to provide a new approach to simplifying system automation that uses pipelines of hot folders chained together to perform a given task...Hot Folder Triggers - AntFlow allows users to automate processes based on a file being added or changed within a folder on disk. This provides an intuitive and user-friendly way for end-users to interact with applications and can greatly simplify integration between applications that can output and injest files."

A related article, Patterns and Strategies for Building Document-Based Web Services.

4 comments:

Danny said...

Whoah, thanks Andrew! The approach I was thinking of for passing data from my feed-fetching subsystem into Kowari is using hotfolders (they have a name!). But I wasn't entirely sure of the sanity of it because of possible file-locking issues. So I've mailed the AntFlow list, they should be pretty sussed on the issues...

Unknown said...

Trying to download ANTFlow but couldn't locate the binaries for Windows. Can someone provide the URL to download?

Thanks!

Unknown said...

Got the same question. I used antflow many years ago and sadly onionnetworks seems to be gone...
So you still have a hint where i might get the package?

Andrew said...

I found the file on a random link on the Internet:
http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~wsep052/Labs/antflow-1.0-rc1-src.zip