Research And Application Of Micro-Workflow Architecture

With the wide spread of Internet and Intranet technology, Workflow Management System (WfMS)has developed rapidly in recent years. The main intention of WfMS is to automate the business procedure by coordinating information and human resources. By using WfMS,the business procedure can be performed according to a certain business logic. In spite of this, there is almost no hope for current WfMS products to meet various and changeful requirements. The micro-workflow architecture is a new workflow model which researcher proposed in the latest years.By contrast with traditional workflow framework ,the micro-workflow architecture separate control and logic aspects, so, it's reusable, portable and extensible. Developers customize workflow functionality to satisfy various requirements on the basis of it. According to the theoretic analysis of micro-workflow architecture, we presents differences and relationship between it and traditional workflow technology, after this,we extend the functionalities of the system and define events type and rules,give the way to how to manage them. Implement an XPDL(XML Process Definition Language) parser, enable micro-workflow core to schedule an sample workflow case. Finally,the paper summarizes all of the work and suggested the future improvement on it.