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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 for 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 nicely 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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