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Process Coordination in BPEL CounterProposal

Process Coordination in BPEL CounterProposal. Bob Haugen. What is Process Coordination. Coordination is about enabling a collection of autonomous entities to perform joint work using predictable interaction patterns Familiar example: Traditional ACID transactions

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Process Coordination in BPEL CounterProposal

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  1. Process Coordination in BPELCounterProposal Bob Haugen

  2. What is Process Coordination • Coordination is about enabling a collection of autonomous entities to perform joint work using predictable interaction patterns • Familiar example: Traditional ACID transactions • Process coordination differs from ACID transaction coordination in many respects • But the abstract protocols are very similar

  3. What can be done in BPEL? • We cannot take a dependency on any context-based coordination specification • There is no commonly agreed dependence target • But all current candidates are sufficiently similar to be plug-compatible • Cross process coordination is a common design pattern already for BPEL processes, using ordinary Web service operations across partnerLinks • See next slides… • The coordination required for issue 2, and many variants of 53-59 can in fact be very conveniently accomplished with no new features using ordinary Web service operations (see example next slide) • See also counter-example

  4. Process the PO ReturnToInventory CancelOrder Anatomy of a Subordinate Process EH Application Specific portType for Coordination scope ProcessPO ConfirmAndShip Pick

  5. Alternative Pattern

  6. Recommendation • BPEL has a notion of an instance-level compensation handler • But BPEL has no mechanism for invocation of this handler nor for its discharge • Moreover the handler has no parameters and hence cannot share state with the coordinator • It is recommended that we remove the instance level compensation handler since we do not provide a way to make it useful • Agreed. But add Confirm and Cancel handlers.

  7. What is lost by not adding any features? • Certain kinds of infrastructure support can make the realization of some coordination patterns easier (e.g., participant/subordinate initiated work) • To make this useful and interoperable, we would need to take a dependency on some external specifications • For BPEL purposes, all candidate external specs are plug-compatible • We neither have any such dependency available nor does our charter include this type of work • Re dependencies: since all candidates are plug-compatible, BPEL can safely add minimal hooks. • Re charter: BPEL usage scenarios consistently require coordination. • We must therefore limit the scope of our work in this area to what BPEL can do with existing features

  8. Ok, so there’s two ways to do coordination in bpel: • Code-your-own coordination logic in each bpel process • Put in hooks to delegate the completion phase of the coordination problem to business transaction managers • Two phases: • Active phase: application messages • Completion phase: protocol messages

  9. Recommended hooks for coordination: • Final Cancel/Confirm • Request completion • Context • Participant registration • Create context

  10. Do we really have to be dependent on a particular coordination protocol ? • bpel participant behaviour can only be • give up before initial work completes • confirm initial work beyond threat of negation • negate initial work beyond threat of confirmation • Some differences may be visible in the coordination side • all-or-none, selection • Most differences are at global level • Q: protocol does/does not need to reflect this • that’s a binding question, so not our problem • Issue 2 coordination doesn’t need a standard protocol anyway

  11. On WS-Atomic Transaction • It is important to note that the atomic, two-phase model is only with respect to the services involved. Sites or infrastructure offering services may advertise two-phase commit, but use some other intra-enterprise model like compensation or versioning. This freedom makes a simple two-phase commit model more useful for long-running Internet computations. • from “Secure, Reliable, Transacted Web Services” - Ferguson, Storey, Lovering, Shewchuk

  12. Where do app-specific protocols break down? • One coordinator, many participants: • Different protocol for each participant? • Composition of prebuilt participants: • Same question • Zero or minimal configuration B2B ecommerce: • Different protocol for each trading partner? • Economic networks (e.g. supply chains): • Different protocol for each node?

  13. What do you lose without a business transaction manager? • Throw coordination work on application programmer • E.g. need to re-invent transaction state machines in BPEL • Process controlling multiple participants gets very complicated • numerous clean-up paths • some have accepted, some in-flight when decide to reverse • recovery and state re-alignment • Something has to tie the message and state changes together • reliable messaging manipulation inside a transaction

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