The Research On Workflow And Its Application In The Development Of Electric Government Software

With the development of society and the deepening of the reform in government departments, the more important the cooperation among different function departments becomes and the more complex E-government becomes, thus the previous office affairs-handling pattern can no longer meet the requirements of enlarging office affairs and information-sharing. Therefore, modern science and technology must be utilized to optimize the government workflow by construct highly efficient E-government system so as to enhance the governments' policy-making capability and to better the service for the public.Workflow management technology is one of the core technology for the process management, which emphasizes not only the accomplishment status of every single step, but also emphasizes that the final service management target should be taken as the flow management target by treating the step-by-step management process in terms of the perspective of the whole workflow process.Workflow technology makes for safe workflow system by incorporating credit service, authorization service, circulation of office documents and information-sharing into an organic and closely-related system, so that it provides critical technology for the realization of integrated government business system. Though workflow technology originated and develops in the logistics management system, now great concern has been aroused as to how to apply workflow technology into E-government system. In fact, the application of workflow technology into E-government system will realize the idea of standardization of management responsibilities and its respective management posts, which is extremely beneficial for the enhancement of the reshuffling of the government affairs-handling flow and for the standardization degree of the handling, if it is introduced and applied into E-government system; it is beneficial for the clear definition of the duty, right and benefit in the process of examination and approval of government documents and document processing, which is one of the purpose for the application of the E-government system. In addition, it serves to straight up and streamlines the government information and standardizes the government business flow. With the development of technology, WFMC workflow software stands out conspicuously in the application of modern office affairs handling in the sense that it can realize not only the atomization of the workflow, enabling the switch of the manual handling style of the incoming and outgoing documents into the atomization style; but also easily reshuffles and optimizes the workflow by virtue of visualized workflow definition and workflow monitoring. The main purpose of the thesis is to construct a flexible and easily expandable workflow model, then to develop an E-government office software, which is suitable for the application of the system to different platforms and transcendent platforms in the science and technology departments based on such model. The thesis first concentrates on the in-depth analysis of the research status on workflow technology and its future development trend, and then the thesis researches on the basic theories and relative techniques of workflow and workflow management system as well. Then detailed analysis of whole process of the E-government office affairs handling software in Shan Xi's Science and Technology Network Bureau, and relative process model has also been developed. In addition, based on the above-mentioned research, a set of published software codes lightweight workflow engine based on J2EE has been chosen to be applied of the workflow technology to E-government office affairs-handling software.