DATA MANAGEMENT EXTERNALIZATION FOR WORKFLOW DEFINITION AND EXECUTION

摘要

A computer-implemented method and system provide for externalizing data in process execution environments. The method includes extracting a data model from a domain specification. The data model includes a set of business objects, at least some of the business objects being linked to a domain-specific activity type by a business object relation. A database is generated from the data model which is accessible through an application program interface. Provision is made for a user to generate a domain-specific process model with links to business objects in the domain specification. The domain-specific process model is transformed to a domain-independent process model which has access to the database through the application program interface at runtime.