[Pub] Probing and Monitoring of WSBPEL Processes with Web Services

At CEC conference in San Francisco we (Heinz Roth, Josef Schiefer, Alexander Schatten) presented our paper: Probing and Monitoring of WSBPEL Processes with Web Services.

In this paper, we deal with monitoring/auditing of WS-BPEL processes. Generally, trying to audit BPEL processes, one faces several problems:

• The BPEL standard provides no auditing capabilities
• In BPEL engines, auditing is (if available at all) implemented in different ways
• Auditing over multiple BPEL engines (e.g., integrating various partners) is hardly feasible

In our paper we suggest a new way to transform a standard BPEL process to an auditable BPEL process (which also conforms BPEL standard). This auditable process sends audit information to a dedicated webservice.

Read more about our ideas in our paper.