Process-Centric Architecture for Enterprise Software Systems

Chapter 6

Process execution

6.1 objectives

■  To learn the principles of process deployment and execution

■  To understand the dynamics of processes at run-time

■  To understand inter-process communication aspects

■  To understand how human participation is enabled in processes

■  To be aware of the intricacies in enabling systems participants

■  To learn the more detailed concepts of workflows, application integration, and rules

6.2 Deployment

To make the process ready for execution, it needs to be put in the run-time process layer. This procedure is called deployment. The entire process model, the service interfaces for activities, bindings/binding policies for activity-services, the subprocess process models, the new executable ...