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 T-Check in Technologies for Interoperability: Business ProcessManagement in a Web Services Context
Fabian HueppiLutz WrageGrace A. Lewis
September 2008TECHNICAL NOTE
CMU/SEI-2008-TN-005
Integration of Software-Intensive Systems (ISIS) Initiative
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Table of Contents
Abstract vii
 
1
 
Introduction 1
 
1.1
 
Web Services 1
 
1.2
 
Business Processes 2
 
1.3
 
Business Process Management 2
 
1.4
 
Business Process Management and Web services 2
 
2
 
BPM Specifications for Web Services 4
 
2.1
 
Common Terms used in a BPM context 4
 
2.2
 
Common Standards in the area of BPM 7
 
2.2.1
 
Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) 7
 
2.2.2
 
Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) 9
 
2.2.3
 
Web Service Choreography Description Language (WS-CDL) 9
 
2.2.4
 
XML Process Definition Language (XPDL) 9
 
3
 
Using the T-Check Approach 10
 
3.1
 
T-Check Context 10
 
3.2
 
Hypotheses for this T-Check 11
 
3.3
 
Criteria for the Hypotheses 11
 
4
 
Designing and Implementing the Solution 12
 
4.1
 
Defining a System Architecture Based on the T-Check Context 12
 
4.2
 
Selecting Tools for Development and Runtime 15
 
4.3
 
Implementing the T-Check Solution 16
 
4.4
 
Importing THE BPEL Process into NETBeans 19
 
4.5
 
Updating a Running BPEL Process 20
 
5
 
Evaluation and Experience with the BPM Tools 21
 
5.1
 
Results for Hypothesis 1 21
 
5.2
 
Results for Hypothesis 2 22
 
5.3
 
Results for Hypothesis 3 23
 
6
 
Future Work 24
 
7
 
Conclusions and Call for Response 25
 
Appendix A
 
BPEL File for the Order Processing Application 26
 
Appendix B
 
ActiveBPEL Deployment Descriptor 31
 
References 32
 
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