Essential Business Process Modeling

Preface; Audience; Assumptions This Book Makes; Contents of This Book; Conventions Used in This Book; Using Code Examples; Safari Enabled; We'd Like to Hear from You; Acknowledgments; Part I: Concepts; Chapter One: Introduction to Business Process Modeling; 1.1 The Benefits of BPM; 1.2 BPM Acid Test: The Process-Oriented Application; 1.3 The Morass of BPM; 1.4 Workflow; 1.5 Roadmap; 1.6 Summary; 1.7 References; Chapter Two: Prescription for a Good BPM Architecture; 2.1 Designing a Solution; 2.2 Components of the Design; 2.3 Standards; 2.4 Summary; 2.5 Reference; Chapter Three: The Scenic Tour of Process Theory; 3.1 Family Tree; 3.2 The Pi-Calculus; 3.3 Petri Nets; 3.4 State Machines and Activity Diagrams; 3.5 Summary; 3.6 References; Chapter Four: Process Design Patterns; 4.1 Design Patterns and the GoF; 4.2 Process Patterns and the P4; 4.3 Yet Another Workflow Language (YAWL); 4.4 Additional Patterns; 4.5 Process Coding Standards; 4.6 Summary; 4.7 References; Part II: Standards; Chapter Five: Business Process Execution Language (BPEL); 5.1 Anatomy of a Process; 5.2 BPEL Example; 5.3 BPEL in a Nutshell; 5.4 BPELJ; 5.5 BPEL and Patterns; 5.6 Summary; 5.7 References; Chapter Six: BPMI Standards: BPMN and BPML; 6.1 BPMN; 6.2 BPML; 6.3 Summary; 6.4 Reference; Chapter Seven: The Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC); 7.1 The Reference Model; 7.2 XPDL; 7.3 WAPI; 7.4 WfXML; 7.5 Summary; 7.6 References; Chapter Eight: World Wide Web Consortium (W3C): Choreography; 8.1 About the W3C; 8.2 Choreography and Orchestration; 8.3 WS-CDL; 8.4 WSCI; 8.5 WSCL; 8.6 Summary; 8.7 References; Chapter Nine: Other BPM Models; 9.1 OMG: Model-Driven BPM; 9.2 ebXML BPSS: Collaboration; 9.3 Microsoft XLANG: BPEL Forerunner; 9.4 IBM WSFL: BPEL Forerunner; 9.5 BPEL, XLANG, and WSFL; 9.6 Summary; 9.7 References; Part III: Examples; Chapter Ten: Example: Human Workflow in Insurance Claims Processing; 10.1 Oracle BPEL Process Manager; 10.2 Setting Up the Environment; 10.3 Developing the Example; 10.4 Testing the Example; 10.5 Summary; 10.6 References; Chapter Eleven: Example: Enterprise Message Broker; 11.1 What Is a Message Broker?; 11.2 Example: Employee Benefits Message Broker; 11.3 Summary; Key BPM Acronymns; Colophon;