工作流系统满足WFMC(工作流参考模型)的分析

工作流系统在系统管理、工作流定义、工作流客户端、引擎模型设计和接口设计方面完全遵循 WfMC 工作流参考模型,具体说明如下:

工作流系统由流程引擎、管理工具、设计工具、应用工具等四部分组成。流程引擎定义、创建和管理工作流的执行,是工作流系统的核心部分;管理工具包括系统管理、流程管理、组织机构以及应用管理在内的四部分功能,方便用户实现业务流程统一管理;设计工具包括流程设计、表单视图设计及组织机构设计等组件,方便用户进行业务流程建模;应用工具提供任务列表、代理设置等功能,为用户提供方便易用的系统使用手段。

工作流规划了八种接口支持与第三方系统对接,具体如下:

1、流程定义接口 (1)提供流程建模定制接口 (2)支持 Visio 建模流程导 (3)支持流程导出为 BPML 规范描述 (4)提供 42 种流程模式、6 种节点类型定制、11 种关系选择及自定义特殊关系 (5)提供图形化流程定制工具,同时提供流程建模和定义 API 供第三方程序直接创建流程。

2、流程任务接口 (1)提供流程引擎工作列表调用接口 (2)将待办、草稿、撤办、代理办理等数据列表 (3)提供用户有权访问的所有流程启动入口 (4)提供流程任务列表的各类操作 API,并支持将 API 注册为服务进行调用。

3、业务应用接口 (1)提供外部业务应用调用工作流接口,包括以服务或 API 模式调用流程过程

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1. Introduction 1.1. Background Work Flow Management is a fast evolving technology which is increasingly being exploited by businesses in a variety of industries. Its primary characteristic is the automation of processes involving combinations of human and machine-based activities, particularly those involving interaction with IT applications and tools. Although its most prevalent use is within the office environment in staff intensive operations such as insurance, banking, legal and general administration, etc, it is also applicable to some classes of industrial and manufacturing applications . Many software vendors have WFM products available today which involve WFM technology and there is a continual introduction of more products into the market. The availability of a wide range of products within the market has allowed individual product vendors to focus on particular functional capabilities and users have adopted particular products to meet specific application needs. However, there are, as yet, no standards defined to enable different WFM products to work together, which is resulting in incompatible "islands" of process automation. The WFM Coalition is a grouping of companies who have joined together to address the above situation. It has been recognised that all work flow management products have some common characteristics, enabling them potentially to achieve a level of interoperability through the use of common standards for various functions. The WFM Coalition has been established to identify these functional areas and develop appropriate specifications for implementation in workflow products. It is intended that such specifications will enable interoperability between heterogeneous workflow products and improved integration of workflow applications with other IT services such as electronic mail and document management, thereby improving the opportunities for the effective use of workflow technology within the IT market, to the benefit of both vendors and users of such technology. 1.2. Purpose The purpose of this document is to provide a framework to support the development of the various specifications described above. It provides a common "Reference Model" for workflow management systems identifying their characteristics, terminology and components, enabling the individual specifications to be developed within the context of an overall model for workflow systems. The detailed specifications will be developed as separate documents. 1.3. Scope This document covers the concepts, terminology, general structure of a workflow management system, its major functional components and the interfaces and information interchange flows between them. It identifies the areas appropriate for standardisation and illustrates the potential interoperability scenarios which may be supported through the use of common standards. It also discusses, where appropriate, the applicability of existing standards to workflow management systems and their integration with other standard IT services. It does not cover wider aspects of business process engineering which lie outside the use of information technology to support the business process. 1.4. Audience The intended audience of this document is the work flow coalition membership as well as others that are interested in the efforts of the coalition and wish to understand the top level technical architecture which underpins the work of the Coalition. The document is intended for a moderately technical audience but extensive prior knowledge of workflow systems is not assumed. 1.5. How to read this document Chapter 2 provides a general introduction to the concepts of workflow systems technology, its evolution, the business context and background on the types of systems which may incorporate this type of technology. If you are unfamiliar with workflow technology you should start here; if you are already familiar with workflow management systems, consider starting at Chapter 3. Chapter 3 discuses the internal structure of workflow systems, the major functional components and the nature of their interactions. It introduces the top level architecture and identifies the various interfaces which may be used to support interoperability between different system components and integration with other major IT infrastructure components. Chapter 4 provides a general overview of the workflow application programme interface (WAPI), comments on the necessary protocol support for open interworking and discusses the principles of conformance to the specifications. It identifies those aspects of the specifications which are required to support various classes of interoperability. The detailed WAPI specifications are published as separate specification documents (see cross references below).
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