Abstract
One of the myths of inter-enterprise process execution is that workflow management systems (WFMSs) deployed in enterprises can achieve the collaboration between enterprises across networks and that there is "one process across enterprises". The reality is that important model primitives are missing in WFMSs required to achieve inter-enterprise process collaboration. WFMSs were not designed to deal with executing message protocols across networks. In contrast, business-to-business (B2B) protocols address all the required functionality to exchange messages reliably between enterprises across networks and are not concerned abo0022;public" (i. e. externally visible) processes whereby WFMSs implement the "private" (i. e. internal) processes of an enterprise. With this approach many of the inter-enterprise collaboration management requirements can be addressed like public process description, advertisement, discovery, selection, composition, delivery, monitoring and contracts. The contribution of this paper is to introduce an approach to bind public and private processes implemented as B2B protocols and workflow types as well as show an approach of inter-enterprise collaboration management.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
Similar content being viewed by others
References
Action Technologies. http://www.actiontech.com.
BEA Process Integrator. http://www.bea.com/products/weblogic/integrator/index.shtml.
BEA Collaborate. http://www.bea.com/products/weblogic/collaborate/index.shtml.
Bussler, C.: B2B Protocol Standards and their Role in Semantic B2B Integration Engines. In: Bulletin of the Technical Committee on Data Engineering. IEEE Computer Society, Vol. 24, No.1 (2001).
Casati, F.; Shan, M.-C.: Models and Languages for Describing and Discovering E-Services. 2001 SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data. Santa Barbara, CA, USA, May 2001.
COSA Workflow. http://www.ley.de/_englisch/cosa/index.htm.
Cyclone Commerce. http://www.cyclonecommerce.com/.
ebXML. http://www.ebxml.org.
ebXML Business Process Specification Schema. Version 1.01. May 2001.http://www.ebxml.org.
ebXML Collaboration-Protocol Profile and Agreement Specification. Version 1.0. May 2001. http://www.ebxml.org.
ebXML Registry Services Specification. Version 1.0. May 2001. http://www.ebxml.org.
EDI. http://www.x12.org.
Fujitsu I-Flow. http://www.i-flow.com/.
Hoffner, Y.; Field, S.; Grefen, P.; Ludwig, H.: Contract-Driven Creation and Operation of Virtual Enterprises. Research Report, RZ 3328, #93374, Computer Science, IBM Research, February 2001.
Hewlett-Packard Process Manager. http://www.ice.hp.com/cyc/af/00/.
IBM MQ Series Workflow. http://www-4.ibm.com/software/ts/mqseries/.
IONA Netfish XDI. http://www.iona.com/products/.
Jablonski, S.; Bussler, C.: Workflow Management. Concepts, Architecture and Implementation. International Thomson Publisher (1995).
Microsoft Biztalk Server. http://www.microsoft.com/biztalkserver.
OAGIS. http://www.openapplications.org/.
Oracle Workflow. http://technet.oracle.com/docs/products/oracle8i/doc_library/817_doc/ois. 817/a85440/wf/wftop.htm.
Peregrine B2B Integration Platform. http://www.peregrine.com.
RosettaNet. http://www.rosettanet.org.
Staffware 2000. http://www.staffware.com.
The XML Cover Pages. http://www.oasis-open.org/cover.
Tibco TIB/Inconcert. http://www.tibco.com/products/in_concert/index.html.
Tibco Active Exchange. http://www.tibco.com/products/activeexchange.
UDDI: Universal Description, Discovery and Integration. http://www.uddi.org.
Versata Integration Server. http://www.versata.com.
Vitria Business Ware. http://www.vitria.com/products/businessware/overview.html.
Webmethods B2Bi. http://www.webmethods.com/content/1, 1107,B2BiSolutions,FF.html.
W3C Web Services Workshop. http://www.w3c.org/2001/03/wsws-program.
Winn, J.: The Emperor’s New Clothes: The Shocking Truth About Digital Signatures and Internet Commerce. March 2001. http://www.smu.edu/~jwinn/shockingtruth.htm.
WSFL. Web Services Flow Language. Version 1.0. IBM Software Group, May 2001. http://www-4.ibm.com/software/solutions/webservices/pdf/WSFL.pdf.
WSDL. Web Services Description Language. Version 1.1. Ariba, IBM, Microsoft. January 2001. http://msdn.microsoft.com/xml/general/wsdl.asp.
XML. http://www.w3c.org/xml.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2001 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Bussler, C. (2001). The Role of B2B Protocols in Inter-Enterprise Process Execution. In: Casati, F., Shan, MC., Georgakopoulos, D. (eds) Technologies for E-Services. TES 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2193. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44809-8_2
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44809-8_2
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-540-42565-6
Online ISBN: 978-3-540-44809-9
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive