Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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403228 | Knowledge-Based Systems | 2007 | 8 Pages |
Recently many vendors and groups have advocated using BPEL and WS-BPEL as a workflow language to encapsulate business logic. While encapsulating workflow and process logic in one place is a sensible architectural decision, the implementation of complex workflows suffers from the same problems that made managing and maintaining hierarchical procedural programs difficult. BPEL lacks constructs for logical modularity such as the requirements construct from the STL [STL 2003, Introduction to the STL. Available from: