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Essential Business Process Modeling
Ten years ago, groupware bundled with email and calendar
applications helped track the flow of work from person to
person within an organization. Workflow in today's
enterprise means more monitoring and orchestrating massive
systems. A new technology called Business Process
Management, or BPM, helps software architects and
developers
design, code, run, administer, and monitor complex
network-based business processesBPM replaces those sketchy
flowchart diagrams that business analysts draw on
whiteboards with a precise model that uses standard
graphical and XML representations, and an architecture that
allows it converse with other services, systems, and
users.Sound complicated? It is. But it's downright
frustrating when you have to search the Web for every little
piece of information vital to the process. Essential
Business Process Modeling gathers all the concepts, design,
architecture, and standard specifications of BPM into one
concise book, and offers hands-on examples that illustrate
BPM's approach to process notation, execution,
administration and monitoring. Author Mike Havey
demonstrates standard ways to code rigorous processes that
are centerpieces of a service-oriented architecture (SOA),
which defines how networks interact so that one can perform
a service for the other. His book also shows how BPM
complements enterprise application integration (EAI), a
method for moving from older applications to new ones, and
Enterprise Service BUS for integrating different web
services, messaging, and XML technologies into a single
network. BPM, he says, is to this collection of services
what a conductor is to musicians in an orchestra: it
coordinates their actions in the performance of a larger
composition. Essential Business Process Modeling teaches you
how to develop examples of process-oriented applications
using free tools that can be run on an average PC or laptop.
You'll also learn about BPM design patterns and best
practices, as well as some underlying theory. The best way
to monitor processes within an enterprise is with BPM, and
the best way to navigate BPM is with this valuable book.
Preface
Part One. Concepts
1. Introduction to Business Process Modeling
The Benefits of BPM
BPM Acid Test: The Process-Oriented Application
The Morass of BPM
Workflow
Roadmap
Summary
References
2. Prescription for a Good BPM Architecture
Designing a Solution
Components of the Design
Standards
Summary
Reference
3. The Scenic Tour of Process Theory
Family Tree
The Pi-Calculus
Petri Nets
State Machines and Activity Diagrams
Summary
References
4. Process Design Patterns
Design Patterns and the GoF
Process Patterns and the P4
Basic Patterns
Advanced Branch and Join Patterns
Structural Patterns
Multiple Instances Patterns
State-Based Patterns
Cancellation Patterns
Yet Another Workflow Language (YAWL)
Additional Patterns
Process Coding Standards
Summary
References
Part Two. standards
5. Business Process Execution Language (BPEL)
Anatomy of a Process
BPEL Example
BPEL in a Nutshell
BPELJ
BPEL and Patterns
Summary
References
6. BPMI Standards: BPMN and BPML
BPMN
BPML
Summary
Reference
7. The Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC)
The Reference Model
XPDL
WAPI
WfXML
Summary
References
8. World Wide Web Consortium (W3C): Choreography
About the W3C
Choreography and Orchestration
WS-CDL
WSCI
WSCL
Summary
References
9. Other BPM Models
OMG: Model-Driven BPM
ebXML BPSS: Collaboration
Microsoft XLANG: BPEL Forerunner
IBM WSFL: BPEL Forerunner
BPEL, XLANG, and WSFL
Summary
References
Part Three. Examples
10. Example: Human Workflow in Insurance Claims Processing
Oracle BPEL Process Manager
Setting Up the Environment
Developing the Example
Testing the Example
Summary
References
11. Example: Enterprise Message Broker
What Is a Message Broker?
Example: Employee Benefits Message Broker
Summary
Key BPM Acronymns
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