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OSWorkflow: A guide for Java developers and architects to integrating open-source Business Process Management

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OSWorkflow: A guide for Java developers and architects to integrating open-source Business Process Management

Overview of this book

OSWorkflow is an open-source workflow engine written entirely in Java with a flexible approach and a technical user-base target. It is released under the Apache License. You can create simple or complex workflows, depending on your needs. You can focus your work on the business logic and rules. No more Petri Net or finite state machine coding! You can integrate OSWorkflow into your application with a minimum of fuss. OSWorkflow provides all of the workflow constructs that you might encounter in real-life processes, such as steps, conditions, loops, splits, joins, roles, etc.This book explains in detail all the various aspects of OSWorkflow, without assuming any prior knowledge of Business Process Management. Real-life examples are used to clarify concepts.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
OSWorkflow
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Introduction

Example Application—Claims Processing


Every service organization has a business process to claim for unpaid services. This process is commonly called claim processing. For every unpaid service a new claim is issued to a representative, to contact the customer for payment.

This process is suited for system-oriented BPM, because it's a batch process that goes through every unpaid service, creates a new claim associated with that service, and assigns this claim to a customer representative. This process runs every day and can be represented with an OSWorkflow workflow definition. In this workflow definition, there's no human intervention; the representative sees only the end result—the customers he or she has to contact.

Additionally this customer contact is a business process in itself, but this time it is a human-oriented business process. The customer representative has a list of customers he or she has to contact each day.

The components of this business solution are as follows:

  • A Quartz...