The Business Choreography Language (BCL) - A Domain-Specific Language for Global Choreographies

2009 World Conference on Services - II Pub Date : 2009-09-21 DOI:10.1109/SERVICES-2.2009.25

Thomas Motal, M. Zapletal, H. Werthner

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UN/CEFACT’s Modeling Methodology (UMM) is a modelingapproach for describing the choreography of B2B processes.UMM is developed by the United Nations Centerfor Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business (UN/CEFACT)and currently defined as a UML profile. Thereby,it constrains the UML for the specific needs of B2B. Aswe learned, using UML as the underlying notation forUMM results in several shortcomings. Furthermore, someworkarounds are required to fit the concepts of UMM tothe UML meta model. Thus, in this paper we examine analternative notation for UMM following the concepts of adomain-specific language (DSL). The contribution of thispaper is twofold: (i) we identify general concepts for modelingglobal choreographies by taking UMM as a startingpoint. (ii) We introduce the Business Choreography Language(BCL), a domain-specific language designed to efficientlysupport the prior identified concepts. The conceptsof the BCL are exemplified by an implementation using theMicrosoft DSL Tools for Visual Studio. In fact, the BCL isan approach tailored to support the specific needs of globalB2B choreographies.

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业务编排语言(BCL)——用于全局编排的特定于领域的语言

UN/CEFACT的建模方法(UMM)是一种用于描述B2B流程编排的建模方法。UMM是由联合国贸易促进和电子商务中心(UN/CEFACT)开发的，目前定义为UML概要文件。因此，它约束了UML以满足B2B的特定需求。正如我们所了解的，使用UML作为umm的基础符号会导致一些缺点。此外，还需要一些变通方法来将UMM的概念与UML元模型相匹配。因此，在本文中，我们将根据领域特定语言(DSL)的概念研究UMM的替代表示法。本文的贡献是双重的:(i)我们通过将UMM作为起点来确定建模全局编排的一般概念。(ii)我们引入业务编排语言(BCL)，这是一种特定于领域的语言，旨在有效地支持先前确定的概念。BCL的概念通过使用microsoft DSL Tools for Visual Studio的实现来举例说明。事实上，BCL是一种专门为支持全球b2b编排的特定需求而定制的方法。

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