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BPEL4WS
Stewart GreenUniversity of the West of England
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Presentation Structure
PurposeBPM ArchitectureRuntime EngineTheory: Petri NetsTheory: Pi CalculusProcess Design PatternsProcess Pattern ExampleBPEL4WS
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Purpose
Introduce BPEL4WSIntroduce “Essential Business Process Modelling”, M. Havey, O’Reilly, 2005
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BPM Architecture
Havey reviewed the 17 candidate BPM standards for an application architecture with the ability to: Design, run, and monitor and
administer business processes that incorporate human and system interactions
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BPM Architecture
Runtime Engine
External Processes
Administration and Monitoring Console
Choreography toolkit: Code generator; compliance
validator
Internal applications
Human worklist application
Process database
Generates or
validates
Management language Standard worklist
interface
Deploy
Read & write
Exporter
BusinessAnalyst
Technical Analyst
System Administrator
Process Participant
Web services
Graphical Editor
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BPM Architecture
Runtime EngineBPEL4WS
. Most expressive. BPMN mapping
. Most industry supportEnterprise Java Beans
External ProcessesWeb service based
communications with processes of other
companies covered by choreographies or B2B
collaborations
Administration and Monitoring Console
JSP Web application
Choreography toolkit: Code generator; compliance
validatorWS-CDL
Internal applications
EJB, JMS, JCA, JDBC, web
services via serve lets
Human worklist application
JSP web application
Process database
JDBC access
Generates or
validates
Management language
(Java management extensions)
BPQL? BPDM?
Standard worklist interface
Deploy
Read & write
BusinessAnalyst
Technical Analyst
System Administrator
Process Participant
Web services
Example: ITPearls Process Modeller BPMN tool with BPEL exporter
Web services via servelets
EJB
Offline utility
Graphical EditorBPMN
. Most expressive. BPEL mappingOffline windows
app.
Exporter (BPMN-2-BPEL)
Offline utility
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Runtime Engine
BPM engine Loads programs (process definitions) Runs instances of them (process instances)
BPEL4WS preferred execution language Most popular Supports most canonical process patterns (see later)
ActiveBPEL is an open source implementation http://www.activebpel.org
Process Manager from Oracle may be trialled free
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/ias/bpel/index.htm
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Theory: Petri Nets
Petri nets Good at describing control flow semantics Van de Aalst et al have developed theory
around process pattern flow semantics and the Petri net
Havey asserts that: “judged on the basis of control flow, the strongest languages are those that are based on Petri nets, including BPEL” since they support more common control flow patterns (see later)
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Theory: Petri Nets
Petri nets help describe – and can be used to implement – the semantics of process control flow, including basic branch and join rules, as well as more complicated synchronisation scenarios: notably dead path elimination
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Theory: Pi Calculus
Pi calculus is an algebraic system for building process that communicate with each other on channelsEach process has a control flow that supports sequential, conditional or concurrent control flowWhen one process sends information to another, it includes the name of the channel to be used for the other process to respond. This name is variable; it may change in response to changing conditions. Channel change is called mobilityThe leading choreography language, WS-CDL, bases its constructions and channel passing on the pi calculus
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Theory: Pi Calculus
Pi calculus has 3 key features for BPM: Control flow support for:
Sequential process behaviours Conditional process behaviours Parallel process behaviours Recursive process behaviours
Message-based communication Clean syntax for inbound & outbound messaging
Mobility: Contemporary processes require the ability to
pass around and change addresses dynamically (mobility)
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Process Design Patterns
Vander Aalst et al. (the “process 4” or P4) have documented process patterns to help process designers Six categories: Basic Advanced split and join Structured State-based Cancellation Multiple instances
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Process Patterns
20 patterns identified, see: Van der Aalst et al., Workflow Patterns,
Distributed and Parallel Databases, 14(1): 5-51, 2003
Animations at www.workflowpatterns.com Characteristics:
Spatial Cluster of process activities arranged to solve a
difficult problem A wish list for a notational language
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Process Patterns: Example
Interleaved parallel routing Intent: several activities are to be
performed in sequence, but order of execution is arbitrary and not known at design time, e.g. an applicant to the army must take 3 tests – medical, dental and optical – but I doesn’t matter in what order
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Process Patterns
Interleave split Dental
Medical
Optical
Interleave join
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Process Patterns
Most BPM vendors and standards lack support for interleaved parallel routingBPEL offers a solution (see van der Aalst et al., Pattern Based Analysis of BPEL4WS, QUT Technical Report FIT-TR-2002-04, Queensland University of Technology, 2002Mutual exclusion is used to ensure that paths run serially and while one activity is running the others are blocked.
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Process Patterns <flow> <scope name=”optical” variableAccessSerializable=”yes”> <sequence> Write to variable C Run optical activity Write to variable C </sequence> <scope> <scope name=”dental” variableAccessSerializable=”yes”> <sequence> Write to variable C Run dental activity Write to variable C </sequence> <scope> <scope name=”medical” variableAccessSerializable=”yes”> <sequence> Write to variable C Run medical activity Write to variable C </sequence> <scope>
Mutual exclusion is used to ensure that patterns run serially: while one activity is running, the others are blocked
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Process Patterns
The P4 rated 15 vendors offerings (see van der Aalst et al., Workflow Patterns: On the Expressive Power of (Petri net based) workflow languages, in K. Jensen (ed.), Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on the Practical Use of Coloured Petri Nets and CPM tools (CPN 2002) vol 560 of DAMI, p 1 – 20, University of Aarhus, 2002Even indirectly, most failed to support 10 of the 20 patterns
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Process Patterns
Communication patterns Receive request
A process triggered by an inbound service request; in BPEL pattern is implemented with the receive activity
Call Partner Service A process sends a message to a partner’s service;
in BPLE invoke
Human workflow patterns
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BPEL4WS
“Business Process Execution Language for Web Services (BPEL4WS or BPEL) is an XML Schema-based abstraction that enables the composition of multiple synchronous and asynchronous Web services into an end-to-end business flow.” (Principles of BPEL, Orchestration, and the ESB from www.capeclear.com)
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BPEL4WS
“A BPEL script is an XML document that conforms to the BPEL schema. The BPEL script is interpreted at runtime by a BPEL processor [engine] that identifies keywords or activities and executes them as defined in the BPEL script.” (www.capeclear.com)
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BPEL4WS
BPEL process programs can: Communicate by exchanging messages with
other web services using receive, reply, and invoke activities
Control execution flow using while, switch, sequence, pick, flow, and wait activities
Handle faults that can occur during processing using catch and catchall activities
Model event-driven programming using onMessage and onAlarm event handlers
Roll back transactions using compensation handlers
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BPEL4WS
Business Process Execution Language for Web ServicesWritten by IBM, MS, BEA & standardised by OASIS organisation (www.oasis-open.org)Antecedents XML Language (XLANG) from MS (claimed to
be influenced by pi calculus) Web Services Flow Language (WSFL) from IBM
(claimed to be influenced by Petri net)
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BPEL4WS
BPEL directly supports 13/20 P4 patterns directly and 1 indirectly
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BPEL4WS
The source code for a BPEL XML-based process definition is: A set of Web Service Definition Language
(WSDL) files specifying the web services A BPEL XML file for the process logic
The process definition references the WSDL partner link types and variables based on WSDL defined message types.
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BPEL4WS
Web Services Definition Language (WSDL) is the standard format specifying services implemented by and called by the process in terms of: Port types Partner link types Message types Properties