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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2014
Filed:
May. 17, 2011
Fenno F. Heath, Iii, Woodbridge, CT (US);
Richard B. Hull, Chatham, NJ (US);
Rong Liu, Sterling, VA (US);
Anil Nigam, Stamford, CT (US);
Florian Pinel, New York, NY (US);
Frederick Y. Wu, Greenwich, CT (US);
Fenno F. Heath, III, Woodbridge, CT (US);
Richard B. Hull, Chatham, NJ (US);
Rong Liu, Sterling, VA (US);
Anil Nigam, Stamford, CT (US);
Florian Pinel, New York, NY (US);
Frederick Y. Wu, Greenwich, CT (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Execution of flexible workflows using artifacts is described. A workflow execution engine is configured to instantiate a process execution (PE) artifact. The PE artifact includes one or more transitions. The workflow execution engine is further configured to execute the one or more transitions and determine if any of the one or more transitions are new or modified. The workflow execution engine is additionally configured to load and execute new or modified transitions, without reinstantiating the PE artifact, responsive to determining that at least one new or modified transitions exist.