2008 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing Vol. 1
Making BPEL Flexible ? Adapting in the Context of Coordination Constraints Using WS-BPEL
July 07-July 11
ISBN: 978-0-7695-3283-7
While WS-BPEL is emerging as the prominent language for modeling executable business processes, it provides limited support for designing flexible processes. An important need of adaptive processes is for concurrent activities in the process to respect coordination constraints. These require that concurrent activities coordinate their behaviors in response to events otherwise the process may become inconsistent. We show how the constraints that necessitate coordination maybe represented in WS-BPEL, and use generalized adaptation and constraint enforcement models to provide away to transform the traditional BPEL process to an adaptive one. The final outcome is an executable WSBPEL process without extensions capable of executing on standard BPEL implementations and able to adapt to events while respecting coordination constraints.
Index Terms:
adaptive, constraints, Web service, business process execution language
Citation:
Yunzhou Wu, Prashant Doshi, "Making BPEL Flexible ? Adapting in the Context of Coordination Constraints Using WS-BPEL," scc, vol. 1, pp.423-430, 2008 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing Vol. 1, 2008