Dynamics AX WF Video: Building Business Process into your application

11 05 2010

I found an interesting video by Josh Honeyman (Snr Dev Lead on Workflow) during the course of last week after viewing the WF 4.0 preview video on msdn’s channel 9. In the video entitled ‘Building Business Process into your Application’ he uses Dynamics AX as a case study of how to build workflows. He provides a good explaination of how the workflow framework currently operates within Dynamics AX 2009 including the challenges, drawbacks and the various decisions that they needed to make, resulting in them choosing to host the WF runtime environment in IIS. He then also looks at the future of Workflow in Dynamics, both in terms of the ‘Near future’ with WF 4.0 and the long term future involving OSLO repositories.

All in all it is a very worthwhile video to take just over half an our out of your workday to watch. I certainly came out well more informed about the framework within which I am working.