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The Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) is an XML based language; the BPEL standard defines the structure, tags and attributes of an XML document that corresponds to a valid BPEL specification. In addition, the standard defines a number of natural language constraints of which some can be ambiguous and are complex. This paper uses the Unified Modelling Language (UML) and Object Constraint Language to provide a model of the XML based BPEL language. Based on this model the paper shows how OCL can be used to give a precise version of the natural language constraints defined in the BPEL standard. We then use this precise specification to generate a Validation tool automatically that can check that a BPEL document is well-formed.
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Akehurst, D.H. (2006). Experiment in Model Driven Validation of BPEL Specifications. In: Konstantas, D., Bourrières, JP., Léonard, M., Boudjlida, N. (eds) Interoperability of Enterprise Software and Applications. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-84628-152-0_24
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