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Talks and Poster Presentations (with Proceedings-Entry):

M. Zapletal, W. van der Aalst, N. Russell, P. Liegl, H. Werthner:
"An Analysis of Windows Workflow's Control-Flow Expressiveness";
Talk: 7th IEEE European Conference on Web Services, Eindhoven; 11-09-2009 - 11-11-2009; in: "Proceedings of the 7th IEEE European Conference on Web Services", IEEE Computer Society, (2009), ISBN: 978-0-7695-3854-9; 200 - 209.



English abstract:
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.

Keywords:
workflow patterns, Windows Workflow Foundation, workflow


Electronic version of the publication:
http://publik.tuwien.ac.at/files/PubDat_178371.pdf



Related Projects:
Project Head Christian Huemer:
Business Semantics on top of Process Technology


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