Market forces and end-user programming for mission-critical systems

  • Authors:

  • Lutz Prechelt;Daniel J. Hutzel

  • Affiliations:

  • Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany;abaXX Technology AG, Stuttgart

  • Venue:
  • WEUSE I Proceedings of the first workshop on End-user software engineering
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

The abaXX Workflow Engine (WFE) is a J2EE COTS software component, part of a larger suite for building web-based systems. Although these systems are usually mission-critical (the customers often being financial institutions), a visual tool that could be used for end-user programming, called the Process Modeler, proved important for marketing the WFE and the component suite in general. The promise of end-user programming (EUP), however, never materialized. This article sketches the evolution of the WFE. It de-scribes why the EUP capabilities were required, why they were never really used in practice, and how to reconcile these two facts.