2. WF Programs
IN CHAPTER 1, “DECONSTRUCTING WF,” we introduced a new way of writing reactive programs. The basis of this approach is a bookmarking substrate upon which we developed a CLR type representing a reusable program statement. We also established the need for a small but specialized runtime environment that manages the execution of programs that are composed of these resumable program statements.
In WF, a resumable program statement is called an activity. A resumable program is a composition of activities. In WF, such a program is often called a workflow, but we favor the precision of the term WF program in this book because “workflow” is used colloquially. The execution environment for WF programs is called the WF runtime.
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