BizTalk Server, Windows Workflow Foundation, and BPM

Green, Dave

doi:10.1007/11841760_2

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“…BPEL seems to have inspired the design of Windows Workflow: Aside from the flow construct, the semantic of a BPEL process may be realized using sequential workflows. However, there is no concept like the flow construct in Windows Workflow [14]. Although both, state machines in Windows Workflow and the flow activity in BPEL allow for unstructured processes, their behavior differs in the following way: BPEL's flow activity is limited to acyclic graphs, but multiple branches can execute concurrently.…”

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An Analysis of Windows Workflow's Control-Flow Expressiveness

Zapletal

Aalst

Russell

et al. 2009

2009 Seventh IEEE European Conference on Web Services

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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 serviceoriented context.

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“…The usage scenarios for Windows Workflow are diverse ranging from regular application development to building middleware solutions -e.g. based on Microsoft's BizTalk server [13], [14]. In the upcoming version of BizTalk (2009), business processes will be modeled using Windows Workflow.…”

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confidence: 99%