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Facilitation of collaborative business processes across organizational and infrastructural boundaries continues to present challenges to enterprise software developers. One of the greatest difficulties in this respect is achieving a streamlined pipeline from business modeling to execution infrastructures. In this paper we present Evie - an approach for rapid design and deployment of event driven collaborative processes based on significant language extensions to Java that are characterized by abstract and succinct constructs. The focus of this paper is to provide proof of concept of Evie’s expressability using a recent benchmark known as service interaction patterns. While the patterns encapsulate the breadth of required business process semantics the Evie language delivers a rapid means of encoding them at an abstract level, and subsequently compiling and executing them to create a fully fledged Java-based execution environment.
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Further examples are in O’Hagan et al. 2007
A more detailed coverage of Evie’s syntax and semantics is covered in O’Hagan et al. 2007.
See middleware.org
serviceinterationpatterns.com
Although not implemented in our prototype, the WS-Addressing endpoint schema can support this via custom properties (wsa:ReferenceProperties).
Message queue systems typically offer this property to reduce the proliferation of message types.
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This work was part of the Harmonized Messaging Technology ARC-Linkage project LP0348532 2003–2006 and funded in part by the SAP Research Center Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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O’Hagan, A.M.J., Sadiq, S. & Sadiq, W. Evie - A developer toolkit for encoding service interaction patterns. Inf Syst Front 11, 211–225 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10796-008-9085-4
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