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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 19, 2008
Filed:
Sep. 13, 2005
Patrick J. Brooks, Toronto, CA;
Rhonda L. Childress, Austin, TX (US);
David B. Kumhyr, Austin, TX (US);
Michael J. Spisak, East Northport, NY (US);
Patrick J. Brooks, Toronto, CA;
Rhonda L. Childress, Austin, TX (US);
David B. Kumhyr, Austin, TX (US);
Michael J. Spisak, East Northport, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
The invention is a computer-implemented workflow application comprising one or more workflow components, each workflow component comprising an object having a metadata property; a workflow program comprising workflow components connected together to execute an operational workflow; a class loader program operable to introspect the objects and extract the metadata properties when each workflow component of the workflow program is executed, and store the metadata properties in a memory; and a workflow manager program operable to analyze the metadata stored in the memory and provide requested status information.