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Bringing Middleware to Everyday Programmers with Ballerina

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Ballerina is a new language for solving integration problems. It is based on insights and best practices derived from languages like BPEL, BPMN, Go, and Java, but also cloud infrastructure systems like Kubernetes. Integration problems were traditionally addressed by dedicated middleware systems such as enterprise service buses, workflow systems and message brokers. However, such systems lack agility required by current integration scenarios, especially for cloud based deployments. This paper discusses how Ballerina solves this problem by bringing integration features into a general purpose programming language.

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    https://ballerina.io.

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    https://jmeter.apache.org.

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    https://wso2.com/products/microservices-framework-for-java.

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  1. WSO2, Colombo, Sri Lanka

    Sanjiva Weerawarana, Chathura Ekanayake & Srinath Perera

  2. IAAS, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

    Frank Leymann

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  1. Hasso-Plattner-Institute, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

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  2. Free University of Bozen Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy

    Marco Montali

  3. Data61, CSIRO, Eveleigh, NSW, Australia

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  4. University of Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein

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Weerawarana, S., Ekanayake, C., Perera, S., Leymann, F. (2018). Bringing Middleware to Everyday Programmers with Ballerina. In: Weske, M., Montali, M., Weber, I., vom Brocke, J. (eds) Business Process Management. BPM 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11080. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98648-7_2

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