All the activity types supported by Cúram workflow have some base details in common. This information allows them to be uniquely identified by the workflow engine and displayed both textually and graphically in the Process Definition Tool. Every activity has a name and an optional description, both of which are localizable. This allows various administration user interfaces to display the information in the appropriate locale.
This base level uniformity allows activities to be identified and executed by the workflow engine without the knowing the specific type of the activity. Each activity type knows it's own metadata and how to behave when executed. This arrangement will allow the addition of new activity types, if required, without affecting the core behavior of the workflow engine.