Versioning and Updating Workflows

Abstract

Up until the release of WF4.5, updating and versioning workflows had its challenges because of the lack of support for managing changes within existing workflows. Even though WF provided a better programming paradigm than using imperative code for modeling ever-changing business processes, support for updating and versioning workflows was badly needed. One of the key contributors that drive the need for managing existing workflows that have been implemented in production is business process maturity.As processes evolve within businesses, software that was developed to model original business processes must be updated to provide new functionality. This can be a hard task for software that models processes that are long-running and are actually in the middle of executing a long-running task when changes need to be made to the software.