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Tuesday, May 25, 2004

Event driven, temporally decoupled business processes

Forget about business process execution languages and belocolus "business process engines" that will protect you from all harm.

Your problems do not stem from the lack of a silver bullet syntax or the lack of a killer programming language feature. Your problems lie in two fundamental concepts that need to be central to how you think about business processes in a distributed world - (a) event driven execution and (b) temporal decoupling.

Without those, all the WF*, BP*, WS* and *ML's in the world cannot help you.

More on this line of thought in this week's ITWorld aricle : When modelling business processes, upside down is the right way up.

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