工作流过程定义规范

The Workflow Specification of Process Definition

1 引言工作流过程定义规范定义了一个通用的交换格式,对业务流程进行形式化的说明。这种通用的交换格式,可支持不同产品间过程定义的传送。规范也内在地包括了开发环境和运行环境形式上的分离,这使得由建模工具生成的过程定义,能作为许多其它WFMS运行时产品的输入,符合了用户所要求的建模和产品运行的独立性。

This paper discusses the representation of a business process in a form. There are three basic aspects:the concept of workflow process definition,on which the idea of process definition interchange is raised;the meta_model of workflow,which is used to describe the entities and attributes of entities within the process definition;the workflow process definition language(WPDL) ,which is used to implement the process definition.