WofBPEL: A Tool for Automated Analysis of BPEL Processes
(2005) WofBPEL: A Tool for Automated Analysis of BPEL Processes. In Benatallah, Boualem and Casati, Fabio and Traverso, Paolo, Eds. Proceedings Third International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2005) 3826, pages pp. 484-489, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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Abstract
Web service composition refers to the creation of new (Web) services by combination of functionality provided by existing ones. This paradigm has gained significant attention in the Web services community and is seen as a pillar for building service-oriented applications. A number of domain-specific languages for service composition have been proposed with consensus being formed around a process-oriented language known as BPEL. The kernel of BPEL consists of simple communication primitives that may be combined using control-flow constructs expressing sequence, branching, parallelism, synchronisation, etc. As a result, BPEL process definitions lend themselves to static flow-based analysis techniques. In this paper, we describe a tool that performs two types of static checks and extracts meta-data to optimise dynamic resource management. The tool operates by translating BPEL processes into Petri nets and exploiting existing Petri net analysis techniques. It relies on a comprehensive and rigorously defined mapping of BPEL constructs into Petri net structures.
| Item Type: | Conference Paper |
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| Status: | Published |
| Keywords: | Business process modelling, Web services, BPEL, tool-based verification, Petri nets. |
| Subjects: | 280000 Information, Computing and Communication Sciences > 280100 Information Systems > 280112 Information Systems Development Methodologies |
| ID Code: | 2918 |
| Deposited By: | Ouyang, C |
| Deposited On: | 19 July 2006 |
| Alternative Locations: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11596141_37 |
| Copyright Owner: | Copyright 2005 Springer |
| Copyright Statement: | This is the author-version of the work. Conference proceedings published, by Springer Verlag, will be available via SpringerLink. http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/ Lecture Notes in Computer Science |