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VxBPEL_ODE: A Variability Enhanced Service Composition Engine

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Web Technologies and Applications (APWeb 2014)

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Service compositions have become a powerful development paradigm to create distributed applications out of autonomous Web services. Since such applications are often deployed and executed in open and dynamic environments, variability management is a crucial enabling technique. To address the adaptation issue of service compositions, we proposed VxBPEL, an extension of BPEL for supporting variability, and a variability-based adaptive service composition approach which employs VxBPEL for variability implementation. In this paper, we present a VxBPEL engine for supporting the execution of VxBPEL service compositions. The engine is called VxBPEL_ODE and is implemented by extending a widely recognized open source BPEL engine, Apache ODE. We discuss key issues of developing VxBPEL_ODE, and three real-life service compositions are employed to evaluate and compare its performance with another VxBPEL engine we developed in our previous work. VxBPEL_ODE, together with analysis, design, and run-time management tools for VxBPEL, constitutes a comprehensive supporting platform for variability-based adaptive service compositions.

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  1. School of Computer and Communication Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, 100083, Beijing, China

    Chang-Ai Sun, Pan Wang & Xin Zhang

  2. Johann Bernoulli Institute, University of Groningen, 9747 AG, Groningen, The Netherlands

    Marco Aiello

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  1. School of Computer Science, National University of Defense Technology, 410073, Changsha, China

    Weihong Han

  2. School of Information Technology & Electrical Engineering, University of Queensland, 4107, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

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  3. School of Computer and Communication Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, 100083, Beijing, China

    Changjun Hu

  4. School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, 150006, Harbin, China

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  5. Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100864, Beijing, China

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Sun, CA., Wang, P., Zhang, X., Aiello, M. (2014). VxBPEL_ODE: A Variability Enhanced Service Composition Engine. In: Han, W., Huang, Z., Hu, C., Zhang, H., Guo, L. (eds) Web Technologies and Applications. APWeb 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8710. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11119-3_7

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