Towards Resource-Oriented BPEL

Service orientation is the de-facto architectural style, today. But, what actually is a service and how should service boundaries be chosen? Resource orientation, once seen as a ”light-weight” approach to Web services, is reshaping itself as a modeling strategy to service orientation. Along comes the realization that resources are in-fact complex state machines. Currently, there is no accepted standard for modeling the internal state of resources. In this paper, BPEL is proposed as a modeling language for resources and necessary extensions to BPEL are outlined.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: ECOWS
• Authors: Hagen Overdick
• Keywords: De-facto Architectural Style, ECOWS 2007, Resources, Service Orientation