BPEL流程监视的可视化实现

Implementation of Visual BPEL Process Monitoring

When a BPEL process is executed, it is necessary to dynamically monitor the process. BPEL is a executable language, which is not suitable for visual monitoring. On the other hand, BPMN is designed to visually describe business process and is more intuitive for monitoring. To visually monitor a BPEL process, transformation from BPEL to BPMN is necessary. However, current study of transformation from BPEL to BPMN does not support the transformation of "link" activity. Besides, no work has been done to add supplementary information into BPMN during transformation. In this paper, we transform nested BPEL process into a flat BPMN process graph without hierarchy through applying a flattening strategy. Especially, we analyze various scenarios of the transformation of link activity, and provide a method to deal with it. Besides, we analyze the mapping between BPEL activities and BPMN graph, through which we found out that some supplementary information cannot automatically obtained from BPEL process. These supplementary information need to be added during transformation. At the end of this paper, we present the structure of our monitoring tool which is based on our transformation algorithm.