Workflow management system, method, and medium that morphs work items

A method of distributing work items to actors in a workflow system so that the actors may perform an activity within a defined workflow process, comprising:

• scheduling and routing a work item in the system to an actor, wherein each work item has a set of work item contents data;
• and
• morphing the work item by determining which data is needed by an actor to which the work item has been scheduled and providing to the actor only the data from the work item contents that the actor needs, wherein the actor is a client and wherein the method further comprises causing a browser to display an HTML page associated with an activity that is to performed by the client and wherein the client iterates over the HTML page to learn what data is needed by the HTML page.

A set of computer processable instructions on a computer readable medium, including:

• server instructions for interpreting a defined workflow process and facilitating the scheduling and routing of work items to an actor so that the actors may perform an activity within the defined workflow process, wherein each work item has a set of work item contents data;
• and
• morphing instructions to determine which data is needed by an actor to which a work item has been scheduled and to morph a work item so that the actor receives only the data from the work item contents that the actor needs, wherein the server instructions and the morphing instructions are implemented in run-time interpretable instructions, and wherein the run-time interpretable instructions include instructions to operate in one of a browser environment or browser context.

A set of computer processable instructions on a computer readable medium, including:

• server instructions for interpreting a defined workflow process and facilitating the scheduling and routing of work items to an actor so that the actors may perform an activity within the defined workflow process, wherein each work item has a set of work item contents data;
• and
• morphing instructions to determine which data is needed by an actor to which a work item has been scheduled and to morph a work item so that the actor receives only the data from the work item contents that the actor needs, wherein the client instructions include instructions to cause a browser to display an HTML page associated with the activity performed by the client instructions and wherein the client instructions include instructions to iterate over the HTML page to learn what data is needed by the HTML page.

A set of computer processable instructions on a computer readable medium, including:

• server instructions for interpreting a defined workflow process and facilitating the scheduling and routing of work items to an actor so that the actors may perform an activity within the defined workflow process, wherein each work item has a set of work item contents data;
• and
• morphing instructions to determine which data is needed by an actor to which a work item has been scheduled and to morph a work item so that the actor receives only the data from the work item contents that the actor needs, wherein the work item is a Java object and wherein the work items contents data comprises a Java hash table of key value pairs.