Pro C# 2010 and the .NET 4 Platform, Fifth Edition

26.1. Defining a Business Process

Any real-world application must be able to model various business processes. Simply put, a business process is a conceptual grouping of tasks that logically work as a collective whole. For example, assume you are building an application that allows a user to purchase an automobile online. Once the user submits the order, a large number of activities are set in motion. You might begin by performing a credit check. If the user passes the credit verification, you might start a database transaction in order to remove the entry from an Inventory table, add a new entry to an Orders table, and update the customer account information. After the database transaction has completed, you still might need to send a confirmation ...