Current workflow languages for web services suffer from poor support for separation of concerns. Aspect-oriented software development is a well-known approach to improve this. In this paper, we present an aspect-oriented extension for the WS-BPEL language that improves on current state-of-the-art by introducing an explicit deployment construct, a richer joinpoint model, and a higher-level pointcut language. In addition, the supporting technology is compatible with existing WS-BPEL engines. Classification. Business process modeling and analysis, processes and service composition
Abstract. One of the main problems in Aspect-Oriented Software Development is the so-called fragile pointcut problem. Uncovering and specifying a good robust pointcut is not an easy task. In this paper we propose to use Inductive Logic Programming, and more specifically the FOIL algorithm, to automatically identify intensional (or "pattern-based") pointcuts. We present the tool chain we implemented to induce a pointcut given a set of identified joinpoints. Using several realistic medium-scale experiments, we show that our approach is able to automatically induce robust pointcuts for a set of joinpoints.
Current day service composition languages like WS-BPEL require in-depth knowledge of this language by the service composition designers. In this paper we present a high-level, visual Service Creation Environment (SCE). This SCE provides service composition templates, verification of compatibility and guidelines, and advanced separation of concerns through Aspect-Oriented Software Development. Composition templates are abstract descriptions of reusable compositions containing several placeholders for services. Services are verified to be compatible with the composition template when a service is mapped onto a composition template's placeholder. Composition guidelines such as QoS constraints can be added to the SCE and verified. The modularization of crosscutting concerns is supported by the SCE through the general-purpose Padus Aspect-Oriented Programming language and the possibility to add concern-specific languages on top of Padus. The SCE generates the appropriate WS-BPEL processes given a complete and verified service composition.
Web services are self-contained, modular units of application logic which provide business functionality to other applications via Internet connections. Several models have been used to compose Web services which are mainly served at specification level and provide static data dependent coordination processes. Hence they can not support reconfigurable dynamic coordination processes in which participant Web services and the coordination process itself will not be known explicitly prior to execution and would be determined dynamically at run time. In this paper we present a framework to coordinate Web services using Reo coordination language. Reo is a channel-based exogenous coordination language which has a formal basis and supports loose coupling, distribution, dynamic reconfiguration and mobility. Given that Web services are inherently loosely coupled and primarily built independently, the channel-based structure of Reo and its reconfigurability will provide a reconfigurable coordination mechanism for Web service composition. The proposed approach is a distributed dynamic orchestration framework which uses Reo channels as a communication means between Web services and benefits from Reo reconfiguration property to provide a dynamic coordination process. Due to data independence property of Reo, the proposed model is a data neutral framework which is mainly focused on coordination. In this paper we also present a number of case studies by using the proposed framework and investigate its pros and cons through these case studies.
This paper presents a high-level, visual Service Creation Environment (SCE) for web services. The SCE introduces two main concepts: services and composition templates. Composition templates are abstract descriptions of reusable compositions containing several placeholders for services. Services are verified to be compatible with the composition template when a service is mapped onto a composition template. The SCE supports the modularization of crosscutting concerns using both the general-purpose AOP language Padus and several concern-specific languages. Aspects can be visually deployed on a target composition template or service, which automatically triggers the weaving process.
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