Glossary

Terminology and definitions used across the Statifier Project.

• Statechart - any visual representation of a statechart. If you were whiteboarding with someone to discuss a workflow you could create a statechart together.
• Definition - A serializable form of a statechart. After previously mentioned whiteboarding session you could draft up a definition from the statechart. This could be in several formats
  • yaml
  • json
  • scxml
  • etc
• Codec - something that can parse a Defintion into a Schema.
• Schema - a parsed and compiled Defition containing native structures to the implementing language.
• Machine - a runnable rules engine given a Schema
• Configuration - the set of currently active states of a Machine