中文摘要：

随着工作流管理系统的普及与成功应用，企业部署在工作流管理系统上的流程将会越来越多，因此需要采用具有动态负载均衡能力、运行稳定和易于扩展的分布式工作流管理系统来代替传统的集中式工作流管理系统。文章提出了一种基于Jini技术的分布式工作流管理系统的架构，描述了此架构的核心机制和实现原理，介绍了系统的实现以及初步的性能测试。基于此架构的分布式工作流管理系统能够自动实现负载平衡并具有较高的可扩展性、稳定性和可用性。

英文摘要：

To handle the large amount of complicated business processes running in an organization,the traditional centralized WfMS needs to be replaced by the distributed WfMS,which is more robust and extensible.We suggest in this paper an infrastructure of building distributed WfMS based on Jini Technology.Core mechanism and kernel parts are introduced in detail.Primary performance test held on a prototype system proved that distributed WfMS based on such an infrastructure characterizes in automatic load balancing,higher extensibility and availability.