Translating standard process models to BPEL

C Ouyang, M Dumas, S Breutel… - … conference on advanced …, 2006 - Springer
International conference on advanced information systems engineering, 2006Springer
Standardisation of languages in the field of business process management has long been
an elusive goal. Recently though, consensus has built around one process implementation
language, namely BPEL, and two fundamentally similar process modelling notations,
namely UML Activity Diagram (UML AD) and BPMN. This paper presents a technique for
generating BPEL code from process models expressed in a core subset of BPMN and UML
AD. This model-to-code translation is a necessary ingredient to the emergence of model …
Abstract
Standardisation of languages in the field of business process management has long been an elusive goal. Recently though, consensus has built around one process implementation language, namely BPEL, and two fundamentally similar process modelling notations, namely UML Activity Diagram (UML AD) and BPMN. This paper presents a technique for generating BPEL code from process models expressed in a core subset of BPMN and UML AD. This model-to-code translation is a necessary ingredient to the emergence of model-driven business process development environments based on these standards. The proposed translation has been implemented as an open source tool.
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