Research And Development Of Web-based Workflow Management System

Workflow Management System is the basis to develop enterprise information systems. With the rapid progresses in computer science and network technology, web-based workflow management system has become the focus of research and advanced topic in workflow management system.This paper investigates the technology to develop the web-based workflow management system, presents the complete architecture of web-based workflow system—TOWorkflow. Based on software engineering and UML, this paper focuses on the detailed design of workflow definition tool, workflow engine with the require analysis result, important data structure and class diagram.At last, the TOWorkflow is adopted in the China Unicom office automation system and the performance has been well tested. With the feedback from China Unicom, this system has been proved to be practical and of much helpful for the work efficiency.