August 2005
Intermediate to advanced
350 pages
10h 29m
English
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Contents of This Book
The book is organized into three parts, eleven chapters and a glossary:
- Part One , Concepts
Covers the BPM essentials, an approach to BPM architecture, a tour of BPM theory, and a survey of process design patterns and coding practices.
- Chapter 1, Introduction to Business Process Modeling
Examines what BPM (and is not!) and discusses its benefits.
- Chapter 2, Prescription for a Good BPM Architecture
Develops a model BPM architecture, and discusses the main pieces of a “good” BPM application, the design of each piece, and which standards are adopted.
- Chapter 3, The Scenic Tour of Process Theory
Provides a tour of the Pi Calculus, Petri nets, state machines, and UML activity diagrams, and why they matter. Practical software books seldom delve into theory, but theory matters more in BPM than in most software subjects.
- Chapter 4, Process Design Patterns
Includes a detailed look at the 20 process patterns identified by some of the leading BPM theorists, a group referred to in this book as the “P4.” The patterns cover common branch-and-join and synchronization scenarios. Also covered are process communication patterns, human interaction patterns, and briefly, coding best practices.
- Part Two, Standards
Provides a detailed look at BPEL; the BPMI specifications (BPML and BPMN); the WfMC (WAPI, XPDL, WfXML, and the reference architecture); web services choreography (WSCI, WS-CDL, WSCL); and the OMG’s model-driven approach (BPDM, BPRI), BPSS, XLANG, and WSFL.
- Chapter 5, Business Process ...
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