WorkThru is an open-source framework for collaborative transactional applications.

It provides an integrated, single-metaphor environment for defining business rules, workflow, access control, change logs, error-handling, and the many other elements of a successful collaborative process. New applications can be designed around the WorkThru approach; existing applications can be easiily retrofitted with WorkThru components.

WorkThru is available royalty-free under the terms of the Eclipse Public License. You are free to use WorkThru to build any kind of application, open-source or proprietary. We encourage you to contribute to the WorkThru code base, and we welcome your active participation in the WorkThru community.

MISSION
WorkThru promotes an approach to application-building that maximizes reuse, makes sophisticated functionality easy to think about and implement, eliminates the need for external workflow or policy engines, and results in transactional applications that are inherently collaborative.

NEWS

• "BPM in Peril; Objects to the Rescue" is the title of an 11,000-word Executive Report by John Tibbetts just published by the Cutter Consortium. Guess what those helpful objects might be! The report is available here. There are a couple of steps involved in the download--you will first see the Executive Summary and be directed how to access the full report.
  
  
• WorkThru inventor John Tibbetts participated on a panel on "Where Does Business Architecture Fit?" at the Brainstorm Business Process Management Conference in San Francisco.
  
  
• John Tibbetts spoke at the Software Development West conference in Santa Clara on Friday, March 17. His topic was "Introducing Use-Case Objects." For a copy of his presentation, click here.
  
  
• John participated in a panel about "Collaboration and Open Source" at the Cutter Consortium Summit in Cambridge, MA, in May. He was also recruited to give an impromptu presentation about agent-based workflow as part of Ken Orr's talk on business process management (BPM).

STATUS
Our Web site went up in March 2006 with our first public code drop. WorkThru has been in development for the past 4 years. Outside developers have recently begun to use the framework, and feedback has begun coming in. We continue to add functionality at a fast pace. We are ready to respond to reports of roadblocks, bugs, functionality gaps, and documentation glitches. We are also eager to hear about ideas for WorkThru extensions, adapters, etc.