The development and evaluation of exception handling mechanisms for order fulfillment process based on BPEL4WS

The advance of Internet technology fosters the order fulfillment process in a supply chain across heterogeneous information systems. In order to monitor states between partners in the process, this study develops exception handling mechanisms based on Web service stack. After detecting exceptions, the first step is to make use of the fault and compensation handlers provided by the BPEL4WS (Business Process Execution Language for Web Services) specification to roll back planned or even executed business processes belonging to the same scope to the original state. The second step is to utilize the resource searching mechanisms, including BE4WS and BCME, to find suitable substitutes to make a replacement or find fitting partners to cooperate with the original one. The third step is to take advantage of the extensibility, flexibility and scalability of BPEL4WS business process to adjust and reform a new one to handle unexpected situations. This study uses the LCD supply chain as an exampl...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: ACMICEC
• Authors: Fu-ren Lin, Hsiang-chin Chang
• Keywords: ACMICEC 2005, ECommerce, Exception Handling Mechanisms, Study Develops Exception, Web Service