Orchestration of business processes using templates

• US 8,402,064 B2
• Filed: 02/01/2010
• Issued: 03/19/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 02/01/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: Addala, Raju, Singh, Alok, Butt, Zeeshan, Munukoti, Jhansi, Agrawal, Himanshu, Pagadala, Srinivas
• Primary Examiner(s): Trujillo, James
• Assistant Examiner(s): VU, THONG H
• Application Number:
  US12/697,756
• Publication Number:
  US 20110191383A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,142 Days
• Field of Search: 707/999, 707/760, 707/701, 707/797, 707/806, 707/803, 707/829, 707/793, 717/125, 717/124, 717/137, 717/120, 709/203, 709/201
• 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 non-transitory computer readable medium having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by a processor, causes the processor to orchestrate a business process, the orchestrating the business process 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 comprising an orchestration code construct associated with a defined business process pattern, wherein the orchestration code construct comprises orchestration code that invokes one or more services;

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

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

wherein the predefined template comprises one of a composite template, a parallel template, a conditional template, a split template or a change management template.

2. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein the executable orchestration code comprises business process execution language (BPEL) process code.

3. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 2, wherein the BPEL code comprises an Extensible Markup Language (XML) document.

4. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein the definition of the business process comprises a plurality of process steps.

5. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1, 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.

6. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein the business process is an order fulfillment business process.

7. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein the composite template comprises a sequence of invocations of Task Layer Services.

8. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein the parallel template comprises an invocation of a sequence of steps performed in parallel.

9. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein the conditional template comprises an invocation of a sequence of steps performed conditionally.

10. 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 comprising an orchestration code construct associated with a defined business process pattern, wherein the orchestration code construct comprises orchestration code that invokes one or more services;

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

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

wherein the predefined template comprises one of a composite template, a parallel template, a conditional template, a split template or a change management template.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the executable orchestration code comprises business process execution language (BPEL) process code.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the BPEL code comprises an Extensible Markup Language (XML) document.

13. The method of claim 10, 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.

14. 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 comprising an orchestration code construct associated with a defined business process pattern, wherein the orchestration code construct comprises orchestration code that invokes one or more services;

wherein the instructions generate executable orchestration code based on the abstract syntax tree and the predefined template; and

wherein the instructions determine an orchestration sequence for an executable process of invoking one or more services based on the metadata;

wherein the predefined template comprises one of a composite template, a parallel template, a conditional template, a split template or a change management template.

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

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the BPEL code comprises an Extensible Markup Language (XML) document.

17. The system of claim 14, wherein the instructions dynamically invoke 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.