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Ten years ago, groupware bundled with email and calendar applications helped track the flow of work from person to person within an organization. Workflow in today's enterprise means more monitoring and orchestrating massive systems. A new technology called Business Process Management, or BPM, helps software architects and developers design, code, run, administer, and monitor complex network-based business processes.

BPM replaces those sketchy flowchart diagrams that business analysts draw on whiteboards with a precise model that uses standard graphical and XML representations, and an architecture that allows it converse with other services, systems, and users.

Sound complicated? It is. But it's downright frustrating when you have to search the Web for every little piece of information vital to the process. Essential Business Process Modeling gathers all the concepts, design, architecture, and standard specifications of BPM into one concise book, and offers hands-on examples that illustrate BPM's approach to process notation, execution, administration and monitoring.

Author Mike Havey demonstrates standard ways to code rigorous processes that are centerpieces of a service-oriented architecture (SOA), which defines how networks interact so that one can perform a service for the other. His book also shows how BPM complements enterprise application integration (EAI), a method for moving from older applications to new ones, and Enterprise Service BUS for integrating different web services, messaging, and XML technologies into a single network. BPM, he says, is to this collection of services what a conductor is to musicians in an orchestra: it coordinates their actions in the performance of a larger composition.

Essential Business Process Modeling teaches you how to develop examples of process-oriented applications using free tools that can be run on an average PC or laptop. You'll also learn about BPM design patterns and best practices, as well as some underlying theory. The best way to monitor processes within an enterprise is with BPM, and the best way to navigate BPM is with this valuable book.

Table of Contents

Preface

Part One. Concepts

1. Introduction to Business Process Modeling
     The Benefits of BPM
     BPM Acid Test: The Process-Oriented Application
     The Morass of BPM
     Workflow
     Roadmap
     Summary
     References

2. Prescription for a Good BPM Architecture
     Designing a Solution
     Components of the Design
     Standards
     Summary
     Reference

3. The Scenic Tour of Process Theory
     Family Tree
     The Pi-Calculus
     Petri Nets
     State Machines and Activity Diagrams
     Summary
     References

4. Process Design Patterns
     Design Patterns and the GoF
     Process Patterns and the P4
     Basic Patterns
     Advanced Branch and Join Patterns
     Structural Patterns
     Multiple Instances Patterns
     State-Based Patterns
     Cancellation Patterns
     Yet Another Workflow Language (YAWL)
     Additional Patterns
     Process Coding Standards
     Summary
     References

Part Two. standards

5. Business Process Execution Language (BPEL)
     Anatomy of a Process
     BPEL Example
     BPEL in a Nutshell
     BPELJ
     BPEL and Patterns
     Summary
     References

6. BPMI Standards: BPMN and BPML
     BPMN
     BPML
     Summary
     Reference

7. The Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC)
     The Reference Model
     XPDL
     WAPI
     WfXML
     Summary
     References

8. World Wide Web Consortium (W3C): Choreography
     About the W3C
     Choreography and Orchestration
     WS-CDL
     WSCI
     WSCL
     Summary
     References

9. Other BPM Models
     OMG: Model-Driven BPM
     ebXML BPSS: Collaboration
     Microsoft XLANG: BPEL Forerunner
     IBM WSFL: BPEL Forerunner
     BPEL, XLANG, and WSFL
     Summary
     References

Part Three. Examples

10. Example: Human Workflow in Insurance Claims Processing
     Oracle BPEL Process Manager
     Setting Up the Environment
     Developing the Example
     Testing the Example
     Summary
     References

11. Example: Enterprise Message Broker
     What Is a Message Broker?
     Example: Employee Benefits Message Broker
     Summary

Key BPM Acronymns

About the Author

Michael Havey is an architect of several major BPM applications and author of magazine articles on BPM and process-oriented applications. In addition to being interested in the foundational concepts of BPM, Michael has spent much of his career working for companies that sell BPM product solutions (BEA with Weblogic Integration and IBM with Websphere Business Integration).

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