Maintaining WS-BPEL Workflows Using Aspects

: In Service Oriented systems organisational processes are represented as WS-BPEL workflows, BPEL is different from traditional workflow languages as a hybrid of block-based and graph-based language; it also has limited support for separation of concerns. Changes to such processes usually impact many places in the underlying system, without seperating such cross-cutting concerns system maintainence is therefore difficult. This work proposed an Aspect Oriented solution to maintaining WS-BPEL workflows using meta-model transformation.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: BPSC
• Authors: Connie Haoying Bao, Nicolas Gold, Mark Harman
• Keywords: BPSC 2007, BPSC 2009, Systems Organisational Processes, Traditional Workflow Languages, WS-BPEL Workflows