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Web Services Composition and Business Process Management

Web Services Composition and Business Process Management. 2005-08-02 Kuyul Noh. Agenda. 1. Introduction. 2. Web Services Compositions. 3. Business Process Management. 4. Case Studies. 5. Conclusion. 1. Introduction. Web Services : Self Contained,

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Web Services Composition and Business Process Management

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  1. Web Services Composition and Business Process Management 2005-08-02 Kuyul Noh

  2. Agenda 1. Introduction 2. Web Services Compositions 3. Business Process Management 4. Case Studies 5. Conclusion

  3. 1. Introduction • Web Services: Self Contained, Modular Business Applications, • Industry Standard Technologies • WSDL: to describe • UDDI: to advertise and syndicate • SOAP: to communicate • These enable users to connect different components even acrossorganizational boundaries in a platform and language-independent manner. • Is it enough?

  4. 1. Introduction • Web Services (WSDL + UDDI + SOAP) • Nodefinition of the business semantics of Webservices. • No consideration of the communication between Web services • No definition about fault handling • No … orchestration, collaboration • No … complex functionality, human-centric workflow • … • Needs something more to manage business process

  5. 1. Introduction • Business Process • A business process specifies the potential executionorder of operations from acollection of Web services, the data shared between these Web services, whichpartners are involved and how they are involved in the business process, jointexception handling for collections of Web services, and other issues involving howmultiple services and organizations participate. • Requirements • Long-running transactions, Consistency, Reliability, Transparency, … • Needs Web service composition • The ability of one business to provide value-added services through composition of basic Web services, possibly offered by different companies. From Business processes in a Web services world:A quick overview of BPEL4WS, IBM 2003

  6. 2. Web services composition • Early Works

  7. 2. Web services composition • Early Works • eCo framework of CommerceNet • Specify business processes and how they relate to Web services • CommerceNet initially created the eCo framework • Focus on the document exchanges required for B2B integration • The specification had a vague notion of orchestration, showing how a process can be composed of web services • Web Services Conversation Language (WSCL) • Outlined a simple conversation language standard • Focused on modeling the sequencing of interaction between web services • This was somewhat analogous to web services choreography

  8. 2. Web services composition • Early Works • XLANG • Specification for the Microsoft BizTalk Server • Focused on the creation of business processes and the interactions between web service providers • Provided support for sequential, parallel, and conditional process control flow • Included a robust exception handling facility, with support for long-running transactions through compensation • Used WSDL as a means to describe the service interface of a process.

  9. 2.Web services composition • Early Works • WSFL • Describe both public and private process flows by IBM • Defines a specific order of activities and data exchanges for a particular process. • Defines both the execution sequence and the mapping of each step in the flow to specific operations, referred to as flow models and global models. • The flow model represents the series of activities in the process, while the global model binds each activity to a specific web service instance • A WSFL definition can also be exposed with a WSDL interface, allowing for recursive decomposition • WSFL supports the handling of exceptions but has no direct support for transactions.

  10. 2. Web services composition • BPEL (Business Process Execution Language) • Specify business processes and how they relate to Web services • Specify how a business process makes use of Web services • Specify Web services that are provided by a business process • Business processes in BPEL are executable and portable • A BPEL business process interoperates with the Web services • BPEL combines IBM's Web Services Flow Language and Microsoft's XLANG specifications, superceeding both these specifications.

  11. 2. Web services composition • BPEL (Business Process Execution Language) web ser vices orchestration: a review of emerging technologies, tools, and standards by HP

  12. 2. Web services composition • Process Definition for Java (PD4J) Provide binding to BPEL definitions and Java/J2EE runtimes, Also provides APIs that can potentially be used instead of BPEL to define all or part of process applications http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=207

  13. 2. Web services composition • WSCI(Web Services Choreography Interface ) [Whiskey] • A specification from Sun, SAP, BEA, and Intalio • Defines an XML-based language for web services collaboration • Defines the overall choreography describing the messages between web services that participate in a collaborative exchange. • Supports message correlation, sequencing rules, exception handling, transactions, and dynamic collaboration. • It only describes the observable or visible behavior between web services. • Does not address the definition of executable business processes • A single WSCI document only describes one partner’s participation in a message exchange.

  14. 2. Web services composition • WSCI(Web Services Choreography Interface ) [Whiskey] • include a set of WSCI documents, one for each partner in the interaction • no single controlling process managing the interaction.

  15. 2. Web services composition • BPML(Business Process Management Language) • A meta-language for describing business processes • Developed by Business Process Management Initiative (BPMI.org), an independent organization chartered by Intalio, Sterling Commerce, Sun, CSC, and others. • Support business processes that could be executed by a BPMS system. incorporated the WSCI protocol • WSCI could be used to describe the public interactions and choreographies and the private implementations could be developed with BPML • Both BPML and WSCI share the same underlying process execution model and similar syntaxes • Includes both transactional support and exception handling mechanisms.

  16. 2. Web services composition • BPML(Business Process Management Language) • BPEL primarily focuses on the creation of executable business processes. BPEL takes more of an “inside-out” perspective, describing an executable process from the perspective of one of the partners. • WSCI is concerned with the public message exchanges between web services. WSCI takes more of a collaborative and choreographed approach, requiring each participant in the message exchange to define a WSCI interface. WSCI is now considered a part of BPML, with WSCI defining the interactions between the services and BPML defining the business processes behind each service. • BPML has some complimentary components to BPEL4WS, both providing capabilities to define a business process.

  17. 2. Web services composition • Comparison of BPEL, XLANG, WSFL, BPML and WSCI From Analysis of Web Services Composition Languages: The Case of BPEL4WS Petia Wohed1? Wil M.P. van der Aalst2 Marlon Dumas3 Arthur H.M. ter Hofstede3

  18. 2.Web services composition • Comparison of BPEL, BPML and WSCI • BPEL primarily focuses on the creation of executable business processes, WSCI is concerned with the public message exchanges between web services. • BPML has some complimentary components to BPEL4WS, both providing capabilities to define a business process. • WSCI is now considered a part of BPML defining the business processes behind each service.

  19. 2.Web services composition • Comparison of BPEL, BPML and WSCI BPEL primarily focuses on the creation of executable business processes, WSCI is concerned with the public message exchanges between web services. BPML has some complimentary components to BPEL4WS, both providing capabilities to define a business process. WSCI is now considered a part of BPML defining the business processes behind each service.

  20. 3. Business Proess Management • Definition of Business Process Management “Event-driven integration characterized by orchestrated, application-oriented workflow across multiple internal applications and/or between trading partners. At the high end, BPM solutions include human-centric workflow, business analytics, use of business process templates and other features. These solutions are normally layered on top of enterprise application integration (EAI) technology.” “Defining Business Process Management”, Giga Research 2003

  21. 3. Business Process Management • Trend of Business Process Management

  22. 3. Business Proess Management • Reletive standards of Business Process Management • BPEL (Business Process Execution Language): most significant BPM standard. BPEL will be widely supported in the future as the specification evolves. • BPML (Business Process Modeling Language): BPML has been effectively eclipsed by BPEL. • BPMN (Business Process Management Notation): a notation standard (e.g., set of icons and graphics) for modeling business processes, to use common modeling graphics across business process modeling tools and the modeling capabilities within BPM products. • Wf-XML: Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC) built upon OASIS ASAP, Provides interoperability between BPM engines, making it possible to execute long-running business processes that span multiple engines. • XPDL: A business process definition language that describes an entire process and was originally designed as an interchange standard between modeling tools and BPM systems. XPDL is used by many vendors to integrate BPM components for process modeling, execution, and control within their product.

  23. 3. Business Process Management

  24. 3. Business Process Management • IBM WebSphere Business Integration Modeler

  25. 3. Business Process Management • TIBCO BusinessWorks

  26. 4. Case Studies (가 case) • A B2Bi collaboration system with dealers • Business Requirements • Real time information interaction from small dealer company without human involvement • Purchase Information synchronization for the Inventory optimization • Resale Information Sharing • Flexible system infrastructure by the change of business • Require high security about data interaction • Optimization of Intra EAI Infrastructure • Adopted technologies • Web Services: SOAP, WSDL (UDDI was not implemented) • Business Process Management: BPML WSFL • ETC: SSL

  27. 4. Case Studies (가 case) • System Architecture: The combination of Web Services and BPM

  28. 4. Case Study (가 case) • Benefit of combination of BPM and Web Services • Utilization of existing systems • Live sharing of data and functionality • Reduction of • Redundancy • Complexity • Maintenance costs • Project risks • Increase of agility

  29. 4. Case Study (CNP Case) • Company Overview • France’s leading life, health and pension insurance company • Premium income of € 19.46 billion in 2003 • 14 million policy holders • Savings, pensions and personal risk • Individual and group products • Distribution strategy based on partnerships with La Poste, Saving banks, financial institutions. • Application landscape • Different backend systems: IBM Z/OS and 390, Bull GCOS 8/7, Linux • Home grown middleware + Tuxedo • Various packaged systems • Multiple COBOL applications • J2EE development, Portal based applications More details: http://www.prima-solutions.com

  30. 4. Case Study (CNP Case) • Objective • Selection of strategic development platform as the base for future applications • Long-term renovation roadmap • 7 x 24 • Flexible indirect sales channels • SOA Strategy based on Prima Platform • Insurance Reference Model • Business Rules • BPM (based on BPEL) • Service Orchestration Framework (based on BPEL) • SOA Integration Framework More details: http://www.prima-solutions.com

  31. 4. Case Study (CNP Case) • System Architecture More details: http://www.prima-solutions.com

  32. 4. Case Study (CNP Case) • Software Layer EnterpriseLayer Individual frontend channels Prima Platform Reference Model Portal Framework ProcessLayer Business Process Management Service Orchestration IntermediaryLayer Business Service Integration BasicLayer Customer’s backend systems http://www.prima-solutions.com

  33. 5. Conclusion • Many Web services specification are still in progress. • BPEL is important standard of business process orchestration. • Web service composition provides significant benefits to the business • Web Services technology let the BPMevolve more mature. • Web Services and BPM are complement one another.

  34. References WSCI, Web Service Choreography Interface.http://www.w3.org/TR/wsci/ WSCL, Web Services Conversation Language.http://www.w3.org/TR/wscl10/ BPEL4WS, Business Process Execution Language for Web Services.http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/ws-bpel/ Web Service Coordination(WS-Coordination), http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/ws-coor Web Services FlowLanguage(WSFL1.0), http://www-306.ibm.com/software/solutions/webservices/pdf/WSFL.pdf Prima Solutions http://www.prima-solutions.com Arkin, A., (2002) Business ProcessModelingLanguage Chris Paletz “Web Services Orchestration. A review of emerging technologies, tools and standards”, Hewllett Packard White Paper, January 2003 “Business Process ManagementStandards Alphabet Soup ”, Forrester 2004 “Defining Business Process Management”, Giga Research 2003

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