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[epf-dev] EPF Installation and User Manual
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Please find
included a document with an EPF Installation, Tutorial and
Manual,
which I have written. The starting point was the help files and for
the rest I relied on trying out the product. I am a novice user of the
application and thought it was the most appropriate moment documenting it.
Since there is a risk that some statements may not be correct, I would be most
grateful for input. Gerhard has already helped with the installation
part. One point bothered me in the EPF Composer. I would have
found it more natural to have the Plug-ins split into two different types:
Method Plug-ins and a Process Plug-ins. It does not seem natural, once the
subject area has been neatly decomposed
into an hierarchical model, with sub-areas having their own plug-ins and
content packages, to have to have processes in one of these plug-ins access the
method content in the other plug-ins. The need for the processes to use
the services of an outside service,
i.e. a default configuration, to be able
to access the content in the other plug-ins, makes it even more convoluted. It would
be more logical to separate out the processes code from the method content plug-in into a
process plug-in type and move/copy the
code from the configuration’s "Plug-in and Package" selection over to this new
plug-in type so that the process by its very nature can access other method
content plug-ins/packages. The Configuration would then no longer have the
hybrid functions of both providing access assistance to processes and
configuration for publishing. It would seem to be a cleaner separation:
the method content plug-in provides static method content, the process plug-in
provides processes and configuration provides configurations for
publishing. It seems that the authors of EPF Practices have made
the same observation, since they have created a method plug-in with the name of
"Process", accessing content packages in the "Practice" method content
plug-in.
Regards,
Bjorn
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