Chapter 1. Hello, Workflow

…thoughts arrive like butterflies — Gossard / Vedder

Windows Workflow might be the most significant piece of middleware to arrive on the Windows platform since COM+ and the Distributed Transaction Coordinator. The difference is, not every application needs a distributed transaction, but nearly every application does have a workflow encoded inside. To understand the types of problems Windows Workflow is designed to solve, let's talk about workflow in a generic sense.