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BPEL for REST

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Business Process Management (BPM 2008)

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Novel trends in Web services technology challenge the assumptions made by current standards for process-based service composition. Most RESTful Web service APIs, which do not rely on the Web service description language (WSDL), cannot easily be composed using the BPEL language. In this paper we propose a lightweight BPEL extension to natively support the composition of RESTful Web services using business processes. We also discuss how to expose the execution state of a business process so that it can be manipulated through REST primitives in a controlled way.

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  1. Faculty of Informatics, University of Lugano, via Buffi 13, 6900, Lugano, Switzerland

    Cesare Pautasso

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  1. University of Tartu, J Liivi 2, 50409, Tartu, Estonia

    Marlon Dumas

  2. Department of Computer Science, Information Systems Group, University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE, Enschede, The Netherlands

    Manfred Reichert

  3. SAP Labs, LLC 3475 Deer Creek Road, CA 94304, Palo Alto, USA

    Ming-Chien Shan

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Pautasso, C. (2008). BPEL for REST. In: Dumas, M., Reichert, M., Shan, MC. (eds) Business Process Management. BPM 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5240. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85758-7_21

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