BPEL Remote Objects: Integrating BPEL Processes into Object-Oriented Applications

Author

Ferber, Marvin ; Rauber, Thomas ; Hunold, Sascha

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany

fYear

2010

fDate

5-10 July 2010

Firstpage

33

Lastpage

40

Abstract

Service-orientation and object-oriented design are common practice in the field of business application development. Business process execution languages help to facilitate the orchestration of Web services in service-oriented architectures (SOA). However, using business processes from within object-oriented and event-driven applications is difficult as asynchronous event handling is missing in workflow-based business process modeling languages. The present article presents an approach for integrating BPEL business processes into object-oriented applications. We propose BPEL remote objects (BPELROs) that can be accessed asynchronously in an object-oriented manner. We present a method how state-based business processes can be implemented using BPELROs. It is shown how to apply BPELROs for software modernization tasks and we also evaluate the performance of BPELROs on different BPEL engines.

Keywords

Web services; business data processing; object-oriented languages; software architecture; workflow management software; BPEL remote object; SOA; Web service; business process execution language; event handling; event-driven applications; object oriented design; service oriented architecture; state-based business processes; workflow based process; Adaptation model; Business; Engines; Object oriented modeling; Simple object access protocol; Unified modeling language;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Services Computing (SCC), 2010 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Miami, FL

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8147-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-4126-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SCC.2010.84

Filename

5557212