Translating shared state based ebXML BPSS models to WS-BPEL
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Schonberger, Andreas; Pflugler, Christoph; Wirtz, Guido
- Source
- International Journal of Business Intelligence and Data Mining; January 2010, Vol. 5 Issue: 4 p398-442, 45p
- Subject
- Language
- ISSN
- 17438187; 17438195
In the Business-to-Business integration (B2Bi) domain, ebXML BPSS (ebBP) as dedicated B2Bi choreography standard is well-suited as means for agreement upon the overall message exchanges among integration partners while executable WS-BPEL orchestrations derived from ebBP choreographies are well-suited for governing the local message flow of each individual participant. In order to enable complex integration scenarios, this paper introduces the concept of partner-shared states into ebBP. We describe the modelling of shared states in ebBP and specify the formalisation and operational semantics of shared state-based ebBP models. A prototypic translation tool provides the realisation of the operational semantics as WS-BPEL orchestrations.