MODEL DRIVEN COLLABORATIVE BUSINESS APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT AND COLLABORATIVE APPLICATIONS DEVELOPED THEREWITH

摘要

A model driven environment for creating collaborative applications for executing collaborative business processes (Figure 1). Interrelated models are configured to define the application. A business process model defines steps and rules of the business process (Figure 1, Business Process Execution Module #32). A vocabulary model (Figure 1, Vocabulary Module #34) defines document flows corresponding to the business process. A service model exposes external events of the business process to other parties in the form of specifications. Trading partners can subscribe to the specifications to collaborate.