Batch Processing in a Services World

BPEL and Job Schedulers are both relevant even as IT infrastructures migrate to real time services-based processing. This article will explain how BPEL and job schedulers (most recently branded as Workload Automation suites) provide an integrated solution that can satisfy the needs of batch and real time processing in a services-orientated infrastructure. Industry leading distributed job schedulers, workload automation (WLA) products, are offered from UC4, Orsyp, CISCO and Advanced Systems Concept, Inc. Oracle offers an industry leading BPEL Process Manager that runs on a variety of Java EE containers.

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As systems become increasingly more integrated and heterogeneous, the need for a robust workflow approach is becoming steadily more apparent. The new class of "enterprise workflow solutions" or more increasingly known as Business Process Management (BPM) solutions have coalesced around an set of functionality and performance requirements that meet the needs of an extended enterprise that includes an organization’s partners, customers, and suppliers. HandySoft aims to simplify and enable complex intersystem workflow and business process automation through its BizFlow product, which provides a comprehensive set of XML-enabled collaborative tools driven by a powerful process management engine.

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Meta workflows as a control and coordination mechanism for exception handling in workflow systems

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This digital document is a journal article from Decision Support Systems, published by Elsevier in 2005. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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A higher level control and coordination mechanism is required for exception handling in workflow systems. This paper describes such a framework based on events, states, and a new kind of process called a meta workflow. Meta workflows have five kinds of meta activities and facilitate control over base workflows. We describe the framework and illustrate it with examples to show its features. The paper gives an architecture for incorporating it into existing workflows and also provides a formal semantics of execution. This framework can be used in Web services, supply chains, and inter-organizational applications where coordination requirements are complex, and flexible and adaptable workflows are needed. It is also useful for handling not just failure recovery but also various kinds of special situations, which arise frequently in web-based applications.

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