Patterns: Serial Process Flows for Intra- and Inter-enterprise

Chapter 7. Technology options

This chapter considers some of the key technologies relevant to the

implementation of the Process-focused Application Integration pattern. The

following technology areas are discussed:

 Flow languages

Business processes are described by flow languages. This chapter discusses

three of these languages and describes which process managers use them.

 Web services

Web services are a common component of any new business process activity

implementation. This chapter introduces some of the fundamental issues

associated with Web services.

 Java Message Service (JMS)

Messaging is a key component of most process managers. This chapter

introduces the Java messaging standard.

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Patterns: Serial Process Flows for Intra- and Inter-enterprise by Mark Endrei, Gianluigi Alari, Anil Ambati, Pål Krogdahl, Charles Martin