ORCHESTRATION OF BUSINESS PROCESSES USING TEMPLATES

• US 20110191383A1
• Filed: 02/01/2010
• Published: 08/04/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 02/01/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: Agrawal, Himanshu, Addala, Raju, Pagadala, Srinivas, Butt, Zeeshan, Munukoti, Jhansi, Singh, Alok
• Granted Patent: US 8,402,064 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/797
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/00 Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling

Abstract

A distributed order orchestration system for orchestrating a business process of an order fulfillment system receives from an interface a definition of the business process and generates metadata from the definition. The system then generates an abstract syntax tree from the metadata. The tree includes a plurality of nodes and one or more of the nodes correspond to a predefined template. The system then generates executable orchestration code based on the abstract syntax tree and the predefined template.

Claims

1. A computer readable media having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by a processor, causes the processor to orchestrate a business process, the instructions comprising:

receiving from an interface a definition of the business process;

generating metadata from the definition;

generating an abstract syntax tree from the metadata, wherein the tree includes a plurality of nodes, wherein one or more of the nodes correspond to a predefined template; and

generating executable orchestration code based on the abstract syntax tree and the predefined template.

2. The computer readable media of claim 1, wherein the predefined template comprises one of a composite template, a parallel template, a conditional template, a split template and a change management template.

3. The computer readable media of claim 1, wherein the executable orchestration code comprises business process execution language (BPEL) process code.

4. The computer readable media of claim 3, wherein the BPEL code comprises an Extensible Markup Language (XML) document.

5. The computer readable media of claim 1, wherein the definition of the business process comprises a plurality of process steps.

6. The computer readable media of claim 1, further comprising:

determining an orchestration sequence for an executable process of invoking one or more services based on the metadata.

7. The computer readable media of claim 6, further comprising:

dynamically invoking the one or more services in the executable process based on the determined orchestration sequence, wherein the invoking of a service facilitates the performance of the service.

8. The computer readable media of claim 1, wherein the business process is an order fulfillment business process.

9. The computer readable media of claim 2, wherein the composite template comprises a sequence of invocations of Task Layer Services.

10. The computer readable media of claim 2, wherein the parallel template comprises the invocation of a sequence of steps performed in parallel.

11. The computer readable media of claim 2, wherein the conditional template comprises the invocation of a sequence of steps performed conditionally.

12. A computer implemented method for orchestrating a business process of an order fulfillment system, the method comprising:

receiving from an interface a definition of the business process;

generating metadata from the definition;

generating an abstract syntax tree from the metadata, wherein the tree includes a plurality of nodes, wherein one or more of the nodes correspond to a predefined template; and

generating executable orchestration code based on the abstract syntax tree and the predefined template.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the predefined template comprises one of a composite template, a parallel template, a conditional template, a split template and a change management template.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein the executable orchestration code comprises business process execution language (BPEL) process code.

15. A distributed order orchestration system comprising:

a processor;

instructions stored on a computer readable medium and executed by the processor;

a user interface that receives a definition of a business process;

wherein the instructions cause the generation of metadata from the definition and the generation of an abstract syntax tree from the metadata;

wherein the tree includes a plurality of nodes, wherein one or more of the nodes correspond to a predefined template; and

where the instructions generate executable orchestration code based on the abstract syntax tree and the predefined template.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the predefined template comprises one of a composite template, a parallel template, a conditional template, a split template and a change management template.

17. The system of claim 15, wherein the executable orchestration code comprises business process execution language (BPEL) process code.