Title: Modelling web service composition with UML 2.0

Authors: Bernhard Bauer, Marc-Philippe Huget

Addresses: Lehrstuhl fur Softwaretechnik und Programmiersprachen, Institut fur Informatik, Universitat Augsburg, D-86135 Augsburg, Germany. ' Leibniz-IMAG/MAGMA, 46, avenue Felix Viallet, 38031 Grenoble cedex, France

Abstract: Web services and web service composition languages for web service choreography are becoming more and more important in the area of inter-enterprise integration. A huge amount of work has been done in the area of web service composition languages. However, the aspects of modelling these specific kinds of software systems have not been studied in detail, in contrast to the definition of business processes where a lot of well-known techniques exist. In this paper, we show how the usage of UML 2.0 and agent specific extensions of it can contribute to the specification of web service choreography. We will start by introducing the notion of web services and web service compositions languages. Then we show how business processes can be specified using UML 2.0 in general by a small case study. Next these business processes are refined to the level of negotiation and processes between web services.

Keywords: web services; web service choreography; web service composition languages; UML; business process modelling; MDA; enterprise integration.

DOI: 10.1504/IJWET.2004.006272

International Journal of Web Engineering and Technology, 2004 Vol.1 No.4, pp.484 - 501

Published online: 12 Feb 2005 *

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