Article in Journal ART-2006-16

BibliographyKhalaf, Rania; Keller, Alexander; Leymann, Frank: Business processes for Web Services: Principles and applications.
In: IBM Systems Journal: Celebrating 10 Years of XML. Vol. 45(2).
University of Stuttgart, Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Information Technology.
pp. 425-446, english.
Online, May 10, 2006.
DOI: 10.1147/sj.452.0425.
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Abstract

The Business Process Execution Language for Web Services (BPEL4WS or BPEL for short) is an XML-based language for defining business processes that provides an interoperable, portable language for both abstract and executable processes and that was designed from the beginning to operate in the heterogeneity and dynamism that is commonplace in information technology today. BPEL builds on the layers of flexibility provided by the Web Services stack, and especially by XML. In this paper, we provide a brief introduction to BPEL with emphasis on architectural drivers and basic concepts. Then we survey ongoing BPEL work in several application areas: adding quality of service to BPEL, extending BPEL to activities involving humans, BPEL for grid computing, and BPEL for autonomic computing.

Department(s)University of Stuttgart, Institute of Architecture of Application Systems, Architecture of Application Systems
Entry dateMay 1, 2008
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