SimpleBPEL: Simplified Modeling of BPEL Workflows for Scientific End Users

Author

Juhnke, Ernst ; Dörnemann, Tim ; Kirch, Sebastian ; Seiler, Dominik ; Freisleben, Bernd

Author_Institution

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

fYear

2010

fDate

1-3 Sept. 2010

Firstpage

137

Lastpage

140

Abstract

The Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) is a reasonable choice for modeling workflows in a Web service environment, but it has a high acceptance threshold for users with no workflow skills. To improve the usability of BPEL for non-tech savvy scientific end users, we present SimpleBPEL, a modeling tool for composing workflows of SimpleBPEL fragments that encapsulate BPEL logic. The implementation is based on Eclipse and automatically generates standard-compliant BPEL workflows. A usage example from the area of media research shows the usefulness of the presented approach.

Keywords

Web services; personal computing; societies; software architecture; specification languages; workflow management software; BPEL logic; BPEL workflow; Eclipse; SimpleBPEL; Web service environment; business process execution language; modeling tool; scientific end user; simplified modeling; Business; Computational modeling; Data models; Media; Service oriented architecture; Visualization; BPEL; Modeling; SOA; Webservices; Workflow;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA), 2010 36th EUROMICRO Conference on

Conference_Location

Lille

ISSN

1089-6503

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7901-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SEAA.2010.32

Filename

5598090