Summary

Human workflow is a key requirement for many projects. Quite often, these are a lot more demanding than just a simple approval. In this chapter, we've looked at some of the more complex, yet common use, cases and shown how these can be addressed in a quite straightforward fashion by the workflow service.

In addition, we've demonstrated how we can use the Workflow API to completely abstract out the underlying Workflow Service and present a completely different appearance to the consumer of the service.

Although we have not covered every detail of the Workflow Service, you should now have a good appreciation of some of its more advanced features, the versatility this gives you, and more importantly, how you can apply them to solve some of ...

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