This paper introduces X-Folders: a software environment for multi-party document-based processes that aims at supporting the implementation of workflow processes involving multiple users that interact by means of documents stored in special, reactive, folders. When the documents inside a folder reach a given state a task is triggered, tasks orchestrate a set of web services in order to enact the workflow. X-Folders is based on a model that promotes the implementation of applications distributed among peer sites and is based on internet standards: the document folders are accessible via WebDAV and via SOAP, external components can be invoked as web services; this enhances the interoperability of the workflow processes with external components and makes it possible to interact with the system even without specific clients.
D. Rossi (2004). Orchestrating Document-based Workflows with X-Folders. NEW YORK : ACM Press.
Orchestrating Document-based Workflows with X-Folders
ROSSI, DAVIDE
2004
Abstract
This paper introduces X-Folders: a software environment for multi-party document-based processes that aims at supporting the implementation of workflow processes involving multiple users that interact by means of documents stored in special, reactive, folders. When the documents inside a folder reach a given state a task is triggered, tasks orchestrate a set of web services in order to enact the workflow. X-Folders is based on a model that promotes the implementation of applications distributed among peer sites and is based on internet standards: the document folders are accessible via WebDAV and via SOAP, external components can be invoked as web services; this enhances the interoperability of the workflow processes with external components and makes it possible to interact with the system even without specific clients.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
