Generic Data Access in XML Based Workflow Management Systems

Various kinds of data are processed in workflow management systems: from case data to control data, from internal data to access to external databases or documents exchanged in inter-organizational workflows. We propose a uniform treatment of all kinds of business data in s. This is achieved by an abstraction mechanism which enables the transparent access to data in any source in a uniform way. We describe an implementation of our extendible generic data access plug-in which provides the workflow management system with updateable XML views of relational data.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: CAISE
• Authors: Christian Dreier, Johann Eder, Marek Lehmann, Amirreza Tahamtan
• Keywords: CAISE 2006, Case Data, Extendible Generic Data, Information Management, Workflow Management System