Abstract
The issue of building a Process Support System Environment (PSSE), or a family of PSEE, to make them interoperate or to use them to pilot applications or services requires new solutions; there is almost no hope for a single system to address correctly all the issues.
This paper presents how we have addressed, realized and experimented a unified framework and approach. The idea is not to build the perfect PSEE but to provide a systematic way to compose specialized process services in two dimensions: horizontally, extending the functionalities of the system; and vertically providing different possible implementations of the selected functionalities.
The paper presents the framework and its principles, and gives practical examples and experimentations on how the framework was used to create a family of process support systems, the Apel family; how the family is managed and extended; how different process engine were coordinated, and how process-driven applications are handled in our system.
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Estublier, J., Villalobos, J., LE, AT., Sanlaville, S., Vega, G. (2003). An Approach and Framework for Extensible Process Support System. In: Oquendo, F. (eds) Software Process Technology. EWSPT 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2786. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45189-1_5
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