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I've been using WWF for a while as part of an internal call center application (ASP.NET), and while learning it was a good practice in understanding how a state machine based workflow system should work, I am definitely not in love with WWF itself. In my opinion it is:
- Overly complex, especially for use within web apps (all that threaded runtime stuff)
- Immature (ever worked with that horrible designer?)
- Anemic in its current feature set
Does anyone have a suggestion for a better .NET based workflow framework? Specifically, I am looking for the following features:
- State machine based (mapping states to available actions)
- A focus on user permissions (controlling who has access to what actions)
- The ability to run workflows as timed background tasks (for example, to send out reminders for items that have been sitting in a certain state for x days)
That's really all I need. I don't need to be able to "drag and drop" any activities or visually design the flow. I am perfectly comfortable writing actual code once a particular action is triggered.