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A reflective approach for dynamic change of BPEL process

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Wuhan University Journal of Natural Sciences

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WS-BPEL (Web Service Business Process Execution Language), as an emerging workflow standard, provides a simple and effective way to construct Web Services-oriented workflows. However, to the best of our knowledge, few effort from the industry and academia has addressed the dynamic change problems of BPEL process. This paper proposes a reflective approach to solve this problem. In this paper, a formal meta-object model of process instance is defined; the behavioral consistency criterion based on this model is proposed; a set of modification primitives are given to modify the meta-object while keeping the change atomic and consistent; and in addition, the MOP is offered to provide the programming interfaces for dynamic BPEL process change.

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Software Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, Hubei, China

    Xiangyang Jia, Shi Ying, Zaoqing Liang, Dan Xie & Jing Wen

  2. School of Computer, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, Hubei, China

    Shi Ying

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Foundation item: Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(60473066, 60773006) and the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China(863 Program)(2006AA012168)

Biography: JIA Xiangyang (1972–), male, Ph. D. candidate, research directions: software engineer, service-oriented software engineer, workflow.

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Jia, X., Ying, S., Liang, Z. et al. A reflective approach for dynamic change of BPEL process. Wuhan Univ. J. Nat. Sci. 13, 165–172 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11859-008-0208-z

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