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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 22, 2010
Filed:
Jan. 26, 2007
Allen E. Wirfs-brock, Kirkland, WA (US);
Dmitry Goncharenko, Redmond, WA (US);
Allen E. Wirfs-Brock, Kirkland, WA (US);
Dmitry Goncharenko, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for creating and executing extensible processes across multiple application components. A declarative feature is provided to allow partially ordered steps in an extensible process spanning multiple application components to be defined in a declarative format. A developer can define the minimum base steps in a first application component. Other application components can then provide additional partially ordered steps and/or actions to the extensible process. The declarative feature allows the partially ordered steps to have an associated step action. A sequencer is provided that assembles the partially ordered steps together from the multiple application components into a computational sequence having a total ordering. The sequencer executes the computational sequence in that total ordering upon receiving an execution request.