Components of the SWF

The SWF is designed to be simple to use and design straight out of the management console. The service itself has some basic concepts that we need to understand before we can start designing our workflows. We are going to take a look at the following concepts:

• Workflows
• Workflow execution history
• Activities and tasks
• Actors
• Domains
• Object identifiers
• Task lists
• The workflow life cycle and execution closure
• Polling for tasks
• Endpoints

Workflows

The workflow represents our business process in the SWF. The workflow contains activities and tasks that need to be completed. It will include all of the orchestration logic that connects the activities together, which defines what kind of actions need to...