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Currently there is rising interest in using REST architecture to implement business processes. To avoid duplicate designs of similar processes, abstract business processes are used to support for reusability. The modeling of abstract business processes based on RESTful architecture, however has been ignored. This paper abstract the similarities between isomorphic processes by introduce a template process in RESTful architecture. BPEL is extended by introducing the concept of resource. A case study is given to illustrate the effectiveness of the approach. This reusable mechanism has the potential to remedy the problems of duplicate designs in RESTful architecture, and can also help inter-organizational applications obtain high maintainability.
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Zhu, C., Yu, H., Cai, H., Xu, B. (2010). Template-Based Process Abstraction for Reusable Inter-organizational Applications in RESTful Architecture. In: Janowski, T., Mohanty, H. (eds) Distributed Computing and Internet Technology. ICDCIT 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5966. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11659-9_12
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