Workflow-based applications

A significant number of companies are reengineering their business to be more effective and productive. Consequently, existing applications must be modified, and new applications must be written. The new applications typically run in a distributed and heterogeneous environment performing single tasks in parallel, and demanding special transaction functionality for the supporting environments. Workflow-based applications offer this type of capability. in this paper, their principal advantages are derived and set in context to transaction, object, and CASE (computer-assisted software engineering) technology. in particular, a method is proposed to develop these workflow-based applications in a cohesive and consistent way.