8. The data processing method of claim 7 , further comprising selecting one of the legacy process description files having a file format of a predefined set of file formats by means of a software developer's graphical user interface.
7. A data processing method comprising: converting a legacy process description file into an extended markup language process description template; rendering the extended markup language process description template in a unified modeling language format; graphically modifying the rendered process description template; converting the modified process description template from the unified modeling language format to the extended markup language format; and deploying the extended markup language format converted modified process description template to a workflow processing system.