“…This is going to force you to think upstream in terms of the pre-field conversation.”
Jeff Jargon got caught upstream in a pre-field conversation once. Washed him halfway to Calgary. Hair stunk something fierce for days after. Now when he scratches his chin his left eye closes. No one should be forced into that.
Enabling interoperation between workflows, and between web services, continues to be a fundamental challenge. This paper proposes a new approach to interoperation based on hubs that are designed using “business artifacts”, a data-centric paradigm for workflow and business process specification. The artifact-centric interoperation hubs are focused primarily on facilitating communication and business-level synchronization between relatively autonomous stakeholders (and stakeholder organizations).
Ooooh, a data-centric paradigm! Of course! Hubs! Business artifacts! I can feel my business process specification crowning already!
