IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS'06) DSCWeaver: Synchronization-Constraint Aspect Extension to Procedural Process Specification Languages Chicago, Illinois, USA September 18-September 22 ISBN: 0-7695-2669-1
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ICWS.2006.54
BPEL is emerging as an open-standards language for Web service composition. However, its procedural style can lead to inflexible and tangled code for managing a crosscutting aspect ? synchronization constraints that define permissible sequences of execution for activities in a process. In this paper, we present DSCWeaver, a tool that enables a synchronization-aspect extension to BPEL. It uses DSCL, a synchronization expression language, to specify constraints. DSCL has the desirable features of declarative syntax, fine granularity, and validation support. A designer can use DSCL to describe and validate the synchronization behavior and rely on DSCWeaver to generate BPEL code. We demonstrate the advantages of our approach in a service deployment process and evaluate its performance using two metrics: Lines of Code (LoC) and Places to Visit (PtV). Evaluation results show that our approach can effectively reduce development effort of process designers while providing performance competitive to un-woven BPEL code.
Citation:
Qinyi Wu, Calton Pu, Akhil Sahai, Roger Barga, Gueyoung Jung, "DSCWeaver: Synchronization-Constraint Aspect Extension to Procedural Process Specification Languages," icws, pp.320-330, IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS'06), 2006 Usage of this product signifies your acceptance of the Terms of Use. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||