DAVO: A Domain-Adaptable, Visual BPEL4WS Orchestrator

Author

Dornemann, T. ; Mathes, Markus ; Schwarzkopf, Roland ; Juhnke, Ernst ; Freisleben, Bernd

Author_Institution

Dept. of Math. & Comput. Sci., Univ. of Marburg, Marburg

fYear

2009

fDate

26-29 May 2009

Firstpage

121

Lastpage

128

Abstract

The Business Process Execution Language for Web Services (BPEL4WS) is the de facto standard for the composition of Web services into complex, valued-added workflows in both industry and academia. Since the composition of Web services into a workflow is challenging and error-prone, several graphical BPEL4WS workflow editors have been developed. These tools focus on the composition process and the visualization of workflows and mainly address the needs of web service experts.To increase the acceptance of BPEL4WS in new application domains, it is mandatory that non Web service experts are also empowered to easily compose Web services into a workflow. This paper presents the domain-adaptable visual orchestrator (DAVO), a graphical BPEL4WS workflow editor which offers a domain-adaptable data model and user interface. DAVO can be easily customized to domain needs and thus is suitable for non Web service experts.

Keywords

Web services; data models; data visualisation; graphical user interfaces; software architecture; tree data structures; workflow management software; Business Process Execution Language; Web service composition; business process modeling; domain-adaptable data model; domain-adaptable visual orchestrator; graphical BPEL4WS workflow editor; service-oriented architecture; tree-like structure; user interface; valued-added workflow visualization; Application software; Business; Computer industry; Computer science; Data models; Mathematics; Service oriented architecture; User interfaces; Visualization; Web services; BPEL; Domain-adaptability; Eclipse; Grid Computing; Time-constrained Web Services; Workflow;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Information Networking and Applications, 2009. AINA '09. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Bradford

ISSN

1550-445X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4000-9

Electronic_ISBN

1550-445X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AINA.2009.78

Filename

5076189