An Analysis of Windows Workflow's Control-Flow Expressiveness

被引：8

作者：

Zapletal, Marco ^{[1
,2
]}

van der Aalst, Wil M. P. ^{[2
]}

Russell, Nick ^{[2
]}

Liegl, Philipp ^{[1
]}

Werthner, Hannes ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Vienna Univ Technol, Vienna, Austria

[2] Eindhoven Univ Technol, Eindhoven, Netherlands

来源：

ECOWS'09: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 7TH IEEE EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON WEB SERVICES | 2009年

关键词：

Workflow Patterns; Windows Workflow; Workflow Modeling; Business Process Modeling;

D O I：

10.1109/ECOWS.2009.17

中图分类号：

TP [自动化技术、计算机技术];

学科分类号：

0812 ;

摘要：

The Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) has been introduced as part of the .NET framework as a means of creating workflow-centric applications. Its intended field of application is broad, ranging from fat-client applications and web applications to enterprise application integration solutions. Unlike other approaches Windows Workflow supports two distinct approaches to workflow specification - sequential workflows and state machine workflows - which deal with fundamentally different types of business scenarios. To date there has been minimal investigation into its capabilities and limitations, especially with respect to the two different control-flow styles it offers. To remedy this, in this paper we present a rigorous analysis of Windows Workflow's ability to deal with common control-flow scenarios. As a framework for this evaluation we use the Workflow Patterns. Our analysis outlines the strength and shortcomings of Windows Workflow's control-flow expressiveness and compares it to BPEL and jBPM - two other popular approaches for the design and implementation of business processes in a service-oriented context.

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