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International Workshop on Business Process Modeling Notation

BPMN 2011: Business Process Model and Notation pp 74–87Cite as

BPMN for REST

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing ((LNBIP,volume 95))

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The Representational State Transfer (REST) architectural style has seen substantial growth and adoption for the design of modern Resource-Oriented Architectures. However, the impact of fundamental constraints such as stateful resources, stateless interactions, and the uniform interface have had only limited uptake and impact in the Business Process Modeling (BPM) community in general, and in the standardization activities revolving around the BPMN notation. In this paper we propose a simple and minimal extension of the BPMN 2.0 notation to provide first-class support for the concept of resource. We show several examples of how the extended notation can be used to externalize the state of a process as a resource, as well as to describe process-driven composition of resources.

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  1. Faculty of Informatics University of Lugano (USI), via Buffi 13, CH-6900, Lugano, Switzerland

    Cesare Pautasso

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Pautasso, C. (2011). BPMN for REST. In: Dijkman, R., Hofstetter, J., Koehler, J. (eds) Business Process Model and Notation. BPMN 2011. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 95. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25160-3_6

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