Process execution method and apparatus

摘要

A disclosed method includes: specifying an activity to be executed, based on process definition that includes plural activities, and that includes a sequence of transitions between activities, wherein each activity includes information representing a device that is operated through a network; first determining, based on the sequence of the transitions, whether or not the specified activity is an initial operation for a certain device whose information is included in the specified activity; and obtaining an access right to the certain device, when determining that the specified activity is the initial operation for the certain device.

主权项

1. A computer-readable, non-transitory storage medium storing a program for causing a computer to execute a process, the process comprising:
expanding, to plural transition routes, a process definition that includes a plurality of activities, a sequence of transitions between activities and a transition with a branch, wherein each of the plurality of activities includes information representing a device that is operated through a network and information representing a component that is a program to process an operation to the device; specifying an activity to be executed, based on the process definition; first determining, based on the sequence of the transitions, whether a certain device on which the specified activity is to be executed is a device whose information is included in the specified activity and which is different from a device on which activities before the specified activity have already been executed; upon determining that the certain device is the device whose information is included in the specified activity and which is different from the device on which the activities before the specified activity have already been executed, second determining, for each of the plural transition routes and based on one or plural attributes of one or plural components for one or plural activities included in an exclusive range from obtaining to releasing an access right to the certain device, whether the transition route is in an exclusive mode or a shared mode; upon detecting that any one transition route of the plural transition routes is in the exclusive mode, setting the exclusive mode for the access right; upon detecting that any one transition route of the plural transition routes is in the shared mode and no transition route of the plural transition routes is in the exclusive mode, setting the shared mode for the access right; and obtaining the access right.