Monitoring Method of Cross-Sites' Processes Executed by Multiple WS-BPEL Processors

Abstract

This paper presents a method for monitoring cross-sites' processes executed by multiple WS-BPEL (Web Service Business Process Execution Language) processors. Due to the nature of distributed workflow in WS-BPEL, when we make cross-sites' processes visible and traceable at the instance level, we need to consider the particular things like the identification of the SOAP messages, and status management of each WS-BPEL process instance. Here, we present a principle of a new method for monitoring cross-sites' processes and the results of our evaluation carried out with our prototype.