Research And Implementation On Workflow Management System Framework

With the development of computer technology and the coming period of economic globalization, workflow technology is used by more and more organizations and enterprise to improve their market competitiveness and adaptability of dealing with unexpected incident. As the system software of creating, executing and managing workflows, the Workflow Management System has a broad market prospect and wide application fields. While the demands of complex distributed environment can not be satisfied by the centralized application pattern, researches on Workflow Management System based on distributed technology become inevitable tendency.According to the workflow reference model brought by Workflow Management Coalition, combining with the development trend of Workflow Management System, the paper researches the Workflow Management System Framework based on J2EE and designs a Workflow Management System Framework based on component and distribution. Then delve into the key technology of the realization process such as the analysis of the process definition, running fashion of the workflow engine and the dispatch of the activity. Finally, it developed the monitor and management tools using popular technical Spring+Struts+Hibernate based on workflow API provided by workflow engine, which monitor and manage the running fashion of the workflow engine. It is shown by the development and running effect that the Workflow Management System has good flexibility and expansibility, and can satisfy the demands of the business system development.