This document discusses eBPM, a business process management platform for OSGi services. It provides an OSGi-based approach to BPM and addresses the needs of analysts to model processes. The eBPM project uses Equinox as its core framework and supports process modeling, service configuration/deployment, monitoring, and integration with external BPEL engines. It allows processes to leverage OSGi services and exposes services through connectors to external systems using various protocols.

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Andrea Zoppello, Gianfranco Boccalon
Engineering Group - 2010
eBPM
Business Process Management For OSGi

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Agenda
1. Context
2. eBPM Project
3. Orchestration within eBPM
4. Demo
5. Other solutions: BPEL as External Engine
6. Conclusion

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OSGi is Great for SOA
Solid Foundation
 Module, Lifecycle, Service Layer
Service Composition
 Service Tracker
 Service Component Models ( Declarative Service, OSGi Blueprint )

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The needs for BPM…
Service Component Models are great but…
 Require to write code to realize business logic
 We need to expose service through different protocols ( not
only SOAP )
Business Analyst think in term of “processes”
 Analyst/Developer gap
Making SOA Project is not only about development
 Governance & Management Tool are keypoints

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eBPM Project
BPM Platform for OSGi services
 Equinox
Core Framework
 OSGi Declarative Services
 Messaging Model
 Event Admin / Distributed ( ECF )
Connectors & Services
 Expose services to external world
through “connectors”
 HTTP,SOAP,JMS,File,FTP,JDBC
 Common Services ( XSLT, Script. )
Tools
Process Modelling Tool Integration
Service Configuration/Deployment
Monitoring & Management Tools

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eBPM – Scope and Background
Will cover the “BPM stuff” in Eclipse SOA TLP
The initial code base come from Spagic Project http://www.spagic.org
IP Process in final stage
Solid foundation based on real projects
 Healthcare ( HL7 integration )
 Italy Public Administration ( Local and Central )
 Industry
 Finance/Banking

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eBPM Core Framework – Messaging Model

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Orchestration: BPMGateway
The orchestration engine is an OSGi Service
 “BPM Gateway” bundle defines API for Orchestration services
 Multiple implementations of the “BPMGateway” would be possible
according to different process engines
An implementation of the BPMGateway based on Jboss
JBPM project is available from the Spagic Project.

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Tools
Service Configuration Editor
 Not overlap with PDE ( it work at a different level )
 Visual Configuration of eBPM services
 Easy Extensible with extension points
Process Development Tools
 BPMN Modeler, Eclipse BPEL Designer
 Extension to easily use eBPM/OSGi service within processes
Deployment Wizard
 Provide facilities to deploy eBPM projects to the Equinox container
Monitoring Tools
 Eclipse Integrated View / Web Monitoring Console

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General Architecture

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BPEL as External Engine
The orchestration engine embed the OSGi Container
Process will use BPEL2.0 Standard Extension Syntax
 Standard Extension Implementation for ODE 2.0
 Will use the eBPM Client API to interact with services
Based on the “Equinox ServletBridge” approach
 eBPM Client API realize the “bridge”
 Implemented as OSGi bundle
ODE Integration is ready

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BPEL Architecture

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