Business Process Integration Using UML and BPEL4WS

»Sridhar Iyengar, »IBM Corporation

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Abstract

The industry is starting to look at integration not just as a technology problem but a business problem. Integration of businesses is in part driven by integrating technologies. Business Process Management and Business Integration are now driving the emergence of new standards (BPEL4WS, BPML) new methodologies (model driven business integration) and technologies. This session will highlight work underway at OMG and OASIS on how the world of modeling (UML, Business Process Definition Metamodel) and BPEL4WS (Business Process Execution Language for Web Services are being integrated. Examples of how to use common design patterns and UML with Web Services will be illustrated using the IBM Emerging Technologies Tool Kit which provides an early implementation of mapping UML to BPEL4WS.

Keywords

»BPEL4WS, »MDA, »UML.

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Biography

»Sridhar Iyengar

Distinguished Engineer

»IBM Corporation

»Chapel Hill, North Carolina

»United States of America

Email: siyengar@us.ibm.com

Sridhar Iyengar, an IBM Distinguished Engineer is focused on using models and metadata for the integration - of applications, software life cycle tools, database, metadata, and web services products. He was the chief architect of the OMG Meta Object Facility (MOF) and the OMG XML Metadata Interchange (XMI) which together with UML forms the core of OMG Model Driven Architecture - MDA. Sridhar has directly influenced all the major modeling and metadata standards from OMG including MOF, XMI, UML and CWM in diverse areas like application development, application integration and data warehousing. Sridhar represents IBM at the OMG where he serves on the OMG Architecture Board and the OMG Board of Directors. Sridhar is one of the primary drivers of the OMG Model Driven Architecture Initiative.He has a master's degree in computer science and is a frequent presenter in industry conferences on topics of modeling, metadata, databases, component software and distributed object technology.