Workshop Paper: Towards Uniform BPEL Engine Management in the Cloud

Bibliography

Simon Harrer, Jörg Lenhard, Guido Wirtz & Tammo van Lessen: “Towards Uniform BPEL Engine Management in the Cloud”, in Proceedings des CloudCycle14 Workshops auf der 44. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI), 2014.

Abstract

The Web Services Business Process Execution language (BPEL) is a standard for modeling and executing automated processes and is tailor-made for service orchestration. BPEL specifies a serialization format which every BPEL implementation has to understand, thus allowing for the portability of processes among runtime engines. Although the modeling and execution of BPEL processes is portable between engines to a large degree, the lifecycle management of BPEL processes is not standardized and varies a lot for different engines. This paper presents a first approach for a uniform and cloud-based lifecycle management of BPEL processes and engines. We infer a uniform interface for the lifecycle management from the capabilities of current engines and provide a prototypic implementation of a tool that manages processes and engines on a TOSCA-compliant infrastructure.

BibTeX

@inproceedings{INPROC-2014-01,
  title = {Towards Uniform BPEL Engine Management in the Cloud},
  author = {Harrer, Simon and Lenhard, Jörg and Wirtz, Guido and van Lessen, Tammo},
  booktitle = {Proceedings des CloudCycle14 Workshops auf der 44. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI)},
  year = {2014},
  month = {sep},
  publisher = {Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI)},
  series = {LNI},
  language = {English},
  etype = {Workshop Paper},
  abstract = {The Web Services Business Process Execution language (BPEL) is a standard for modeling and executing automated processes and is tailor-made for service orchestration. BPEL specifies a serialization format which every BPEL implementation has to understand, thus allowing for the portability of processes among runtime engines. Although the modeling and execution of BPEL processes is portable between engines to a large degree, the lifecycle management of BPEL processes is not standardized and varies a lot for different engines. This paper presents a first approach for a uniform and cloud-based lifecycle management of BPEL processes and engines. We infer a uniform interface for the lifecycle management from the capabilities of current engines and provide a prototypic implementation of a tool that manages processes and engines on a TOSCA-compliant infrastructure.},
  url = {http://www.taval.de/publications/INPROC-2014-01}
}