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CHAPTER18Business Process Oriented BPEL

BPEL is short for Business Process Execution Language. So far, we have used BPEL for the creation of composite services and asynchronous, sometimes longer running interactions. We have not really been working from the notion of business processes and certainly not yet in terms that business representatives would understand.

In this chapter, we will start from the description of a business process—for the security accreditation of new staff at the airport. This description is turned into the high-level design of a BPEL process—using flows and decision logic, human tasks for various actors, and event handlers. ...

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