Accommodating with the distributed component software design trend, Web Services can be adopted to encapsulate workflow engine so that some other systems can use process services provided by workflow engine as modules of themselves.

• 为适应软件设计组件化、分布化的发展趋势,可利用Web服务技术对工作流引擎进行封装,使得其它的业务子系统可以像调用自身模块一样调用工作流引擎提供的流程服务,从而使工作流引擎表现出可嵌入性。