Re: Some questions on BPSS control flow

["Monica J. Martin" <Monica.Martin@Sun.COM>]

Simon Lee wrote:

>Dear All,
>
>I am a new comer to this list. Currently our research center has planned to
>develop a graphical editor to generate BPSS. To make the editor simple, we
>have defined some basic graphical constructs in defining the control flow of
>a Business Process. The constructs include
>- Decision (if structure)
>- Parallel execution
>- Select execution
>- Join execution
>- Repeat execution (loop structure)
>We feel that these are some of the fundamental constructs in defining
>business flows/controls. However we've got difficulties in analyzing the
>spec (especially on control flows, e.g. transitions and fork/join) and
>therefore we can't make the mapping between these constructs and BPSS. Could
>anyone point out some resources/references that explain these terms? Do you
>have any ideas on how to make mapping between our constructs and BPSS? Your
>comment is invaluable to us!
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Simon,
This is one of our next Learning Session topics: Control flow tutorial -
choreography, state management and transitions.
Perhaps JJ Dubray can indicate when he could do this Learning Session
and you could attend.

>Thanks in advance!
>
>Best Regards,
>Simon Lee
>Technology Officer
>Center for E-Commerce Infrastructure Development (CECID)
>Department of Computer Science and Information Systems
>The University of Hong Kong
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