- "JOLIE: a Java Orchestration Language Intepreter Engine"
Fabrizio Montesi, Claudio Guidi, Roberto Lucchi and Gianluigi Zavattaro
In CoOrg 06, Volume to appear of ENTCS.
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Abstract:
Service oriented computing is an emerging paradigm for programming distributed
applications based on services. Services are simple software elements that supply
their functionalities by exhibiting their interfaces and that can be invoked by exploiting
simple communication primitives. The emerging mechanism exploited in
service oriented computing for composing services, in order to provide more complex
functionalities, is by means of orchestrators. An orchestrator is able to invoke
and coordinate other services by exploiting typical workflow patterns such as parallel
composition, sequencing and choices. Examples of orchestration languages are
XLANG and WS-BPEL. In this paper we present JOLIE, an interpreter and
engine for orchestration programs. The main novelties of JOLIE are that it provides
an easy to use development environment (because it supports a more programmer
friendly C/Java-like syntax instead of an XML-based syntax) and it is based on a
solid mathematical underlying model (developed in previous works of the authors).
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