Research on Service-Oriented Workflow Management System Architecture

In service-oriented architecture (SOA), the services and workflows have a close relationship, a number of services can constitute workflows, and the service itself can be achieved based on workflows. Because of dynamic changes of the constitution and service itself, the distributed computing method is quiet different with the traditional workflow management model in service-oriented workflow (SOWF) definition, management and operation. Moreover, the architecture of its system also embodies the characteristics of distributed computing, so in order to resolve the service-oriented workflow management system across different organizations, systems, entities of the synergy between the scheduling difficulties, this paper discusses service-oriented workflow management system based on the structure of a service-oriented workflow management system in a number of services and the workflow management, and their communications standards.