Integrated business-process driven design for service-oriented enterprise applications

This paper proposed a new approach for integrated business-process-driven modeling and implementation for service-oriented enterprise applications. There are three phases in this approach: business environment modeling, business process modeling, and compiling. Business environment modeling employs a new modeling technique combining both the advantages of use case diagram and sequence diagram in UML. Business process modeling is an essential part of the development, this paper contributed a new BPEL-enabled foldable flowchart for it. A BPEL-enabled foldable flowchart is capable of showing any levels of the model details in a same plane, while a normal flowchart demands a 3d-vision indeed. The mapping algorithms are also given and proved to be of linear time complexity. At compiling phase, the business process model is compiled into several deployable files. These files can be deployed on a process engine to create a new process that meets the business requirement. Furthermore, this approach is implemented on the open platform Eclipse V3.1 so that it can be integrated with other SOA tools to provide a total solution for building enterprise applications. Finally there is a demonstration showing how to develop a supply chain management system for the retail industry using this approach.