Workflow 1.0 beta provides new Azure functionality:

• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/jj193528(v=azure.10) – a scale-out enabled infrastructure for hosting Workflows
• installation on-premises, or on Azure roles

You can view my full presentation on this here: http://www.slideshare.net/joshuareuben9/azure-workflow

 

I’ll bet this is released around Build Conference.

Below is a short summary:

 

 

Workflow Farm

• New distributed node managed host infra for executing workflows 
• Scale-out load-balanced infrastructure: out of the box

 

Service Bus Orchestration

• PAAS messaging fabric process manager
• pipelines, transformations, routing, message validation
• support for reading, writing and correlating workflows directly from Service Bus messages (Queues and Topics)
• dependent on Service Bus for storing workflow persisted state and starting workflows

monitoring & managing running workflow instances - Health monitoring, custom configuration

• REST API
• client library
• Azure portal

New messaging capabilities integrated with hosting runtime

• REST web services
• Azure Service Bus

Notifications

• Workflow instances are created and resumed via notification messages
• delivered asynchronously to all workflow instances that match the filter

DynamicValue

• Hierarchical dynamic data structure
• used for passing complex data in/out of a workflow
• Automatically serialized as JSON

New Activities and Trusted Activity Whitelist

• calling http services
• working with JSON through DynamicValue composition hierarchies

Scope

• container for Activities, Workflows, Instances, configuration and child Scopes
• provides a boundary for multi-tenancy and messaging (notifications)
• Multiple level of nested scopes - –Permissions and config flow down hierarchy

Enjoy

Posted on Saturday, August 18, 2012 9:53 AM Workflow , Cloud | Back to top