Oslo – More news and predictions

A few weeks back I took a guess at “What is Oslo?”in that post I suggested the following

I imagine it to be a tool that enables these Information Workers to use some of Oslo’s features much like using Visio, but instead of static elements there are dynamic objects drawn from the repository that perform a specific business purpose, when put together by the domain expert enables them to perform a task that would have required a developer to perform otherwise.

As it turns out I may not be that far from the truth, or some part of it. Ron Jacobs interviewed David Chappell at Tech.Ed just past and in that conversation David divulges a few interesting bit of information.

Two things that caught my attention was the “Lifecycle Manager” and the “Process Server”.  But here are my two predictions about what these two things could be. (Yes I am going out on a limb)

The Lifecycle Manager – A long running workflow or Saga manager.

The Process Server – A Service Bus implementation.

The video  of Ron Jacobs and David Chappell along with David’s loose timeline/ roadmap to Oslo is after the Jump

endpoint.tv – The Road to "Oslo"

Thanks to Lars Corneliussen for the following

David Chappel also described the release roadmap, but without confirming any exact dates:

1. A CTP Release around PDC (October 27?)
   He didn’t say what that will include.
2. New Workflow Foundation with .NET 4 and a new Visual Studio version
3. The repository including the modeling language and its visual editor + a first part of the process server
4. A more complete version of the process server, including lifecycle manager (whatever that means)

There is nothing left but waiting for the PDC in October. So see you there!