Table of Contents

Essential Business Process Modeling
By Mike Havey
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Publisher: O'Reilly
Pub Date: August 2005
ISBN: 0-596-00843-0
Pages: 350

Table of Contents  | Index

		Copyright
		Preface
			Audience
			Assumptions This Book Makes
			Contents of This Book
			Conventions Used in This Book
			Using Code Examples
			Safari Enabled
			We'd Like to Hear from You
			Acknowledgments
		Part I:  Concepts
			Chapter One.  Introduction to Business Process Modeling
				Section 1.1.  The Benefits of BPM
				Section 1.2.  BPM Acid Test: The Process-Oriented Application
				Section 1.3.  The Morass of BPM
				Section 1.4.  Workflow
				Section 1.5.  Roadmap
				Section 1.6.  Summary
				Section 1.7.  References
			Chapter Two.  Prescription for a Good BPM Architecture
				Section 2.1.  Designing a Solution
				Section 2.2.  Components of the Design
				Section 2.3.  Standards
				Section 2.4.  Summary
				Section 2.5.  Reference
			Chapter Three.  The Scenic Tour of Process Theory
				Section 3.1.  Family Tree
				Section 3.2.  The Pi-Calculus
				Section 3.3.  Petri Nets
				Section 3.4.  State Machines and Activity Diagrams
				Section 3.5.  Summary
				Section 3.6.  References
			Chapter Four.  Process Design Patterns
				Section 4.1.  Design Patterns and the GoF
				Section 4.2.  Process Patterns and the P4
				Section 4.3.  Yet Another Workflow Language (YAWL)
				Section 4.4.  Additional Patterns
				Section 4.5.  Process Coding Standards
				Section 4.6.  Summary
				Section 4.7.  References
		Part II:  Standards
			Chapter Five.  Business Process Execution Language (BPEL)
				Section 5.1.  Anatomy of a Process
				Section 5.2.  BPEL Example
				Section 5.3.  BPEL in a Nutshell
				Section 5.4.  BPELJ
				Section 5.5.  BPEL and Patterns
				Section 5.6.  Summary
				Section 5.7.  References
			Chapter Six.  BPMI Standards: BPMN and BPML
				Section 6.1.  BPMN
				Section 6.2.  BPML
				Section 6.3.  Summary
				Section 6.4.  Reference
			Chapter Seven.  The Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC)
				Section 7.1.  The Reference Model
				Section 7.2.  XPDL
				Section 7.3.  WAPI
				Section 7.4.  WfXML
				Section 7.5.  Summary
				Section 7.6.  References
			Chapter Eight.  World Wide Web Consortium (W3C): Choreography
				Section 8.1.  About the W3C
				Section 8.2.  Choreography and Orchestration
				Section 8.3.  WS-CDL
				Section 8.4.  WSCI
				Section 8.5.  WSCL
				Section 8.6.  Summary
				Section 8.7.  References
			Chapter Nine.  Other BPM Models
				Section 9.1.  OMG: Model-Driven BPM
				Section 9.2.  ebXML BPSS: Collaboration
				Section 9.3.  Microsoft XLANG: BPEL Forerunner
				Section 9.4.  IBM WSFL: BPEL Forerunner
				Section 9.5.  BPEL, XLANG, and WSFL
				Section 9.6.  Summary
				Section 9.7.  References
		Part III:  Examples
			Chapter Ten.  Example: Human Workflow in Insurance Claims Processing
				Section 10.1.  Oracle BPEL Process Manager
				Section 10.2.  Setting Up the Environment
				Section 10.3.  Developing the Example
				Section 10.4.  Testing the Example
				Section 10.5.  Summary
				Section 10.6.  References
			Chapter Eleven.  Example: Enterprise Message Broker
				Section 11.1.  What Is a Message Broker?
				Section 11.2.  Example: Employee Benefits Message Broker
				Section 11.3.  Summary
		Key BPM Acronymns
		Colophon
			About the Author
			Colophon
		Index