CuteFlow: A Refined Modeling-Driven Business Process Designer

Currently in the BPM (Business Process Management) domain, there exist many meta-models which are defined as a set of semantic elements for representing related concepts. Correspondingly, various tools have been developed based on one of those meta-models. However, the more complicated the meta-models are, the more difficult it is to interoperate two heterogeneous models. In the meantime, SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) emerges as a promising solution to the highly efficient integration of enterprises, while MDA (Modeling Driven Architecture) is proceeding rapidly on its way to a high maturity along with the perfection of supporting tools which provides a solid foundation for the implementation. In this paper, we extract a refined meta-model based on the mainstream meta-models. Then, Modeling-Driven roadmap on technology of our modeler is proposed. Finally, we both design and implement a business process modeling tool based on the meta-model following the MDA methodology.