BPELscript: A Simplified Script Syntax for WS-BPEL 2.0

Author

Bischof, Marc ; Kopp, Oliver ; van Lessen, T. ; Leymann, Frank

Author_Institution

Inst. of Archit. of Applic. Syst., Univ. Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

fYear

2009

fDate

27-29 Aug. 2009

Firstpage

39

Lastpage

46

Abstract

Business processes are usually modeled using graphical notations such as BPMN. As a first step towards execution as workflow, a business process is transformed to an abstract WS-BPEL process. Technical details required for execution are added by an IT expert. While IT experts expect Java-like syntax for programs, WS-BPEL requires processes to be expressed in XML. This paper introduces BPELscript as a new syntax for WS-BPEL aiming to reduce the barrier for IT experts to use WS-BPEL by providing a JavaScript-inspired syntax.

Keywords

Java; Web services; business data processing; computational linguistics; BPELscript; JavaScript-inspired syntax; WS-BPEL 2.0; WS-BPEL process; XML; business process management; eXtensible Markup Language; graphical notations; script syntax; Application software; Computer architecture; Concurrent computing; Engines; Java; Service oriented architecture; Software engineering; Switches; Web services; XML; BPEL; BPM lifecycle; service orchestration; service scripting;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Engineering and Advanced Applications, 2009. SEAA '09. 35th Euromicro Conference on

Conference_Location

Patras

ISSN

1089-6503

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3784-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SEAA.2009.21

Filename

5349897