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Coordination for Fragmented Loops and Scopes in a Distributed Business Process

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Business Process Management (BPM 2010)

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This paper addresses partitioning business processes that contain loops as well as compensation and fault handling scopes. The resulting process fragments can be distributed and wired together, recreating the execution semantics of the original process model. In earlier work, we presented BPEL fragmentation covering data and explicit control dependencies. We now extend the approach to handle fragmenting loops and scopes. Maintaining the focus on standards and maximizing extensibility of Web service runtimes and standards, the solution defines and uses new coordination protocols that plug into the WS-Coordination framework. An implementation is presented, extending the Active Endpoints BPEL engine and a WS-Coordination system.

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  1. IBM TJ Watson Research Center, 1 Rogers St, Cambridge, MA, 02142, USA

    Rania Khalaf

  2. Institute of Architecture of Application Systems, University of Stuttgart, Universitätsstraße 38, 70569, Stuttgart, Germany

    Frank Leymann

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  2. Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, 10099, Berlin, Germany

    Jan Mendling

  3. Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Englerstraße 11, Gebäude 11.40, 76131, Karlsruhe,, Germany

    Stefan Tai

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Khalaf, R., Leymann, F. (2010). Coordination for Fragmented Loops and Scopes in a Distributed Business Process. In: Hull, R., Mendling, J., Tai, S. (eds) Business Process Management. BPM 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6336. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15618-2_14

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