Business Process Design based on Web Services: The C.O.S.M.O.S. Environment

Abstract: Today’s Enterprises and Organizations are facing the problem of Software Integration and the difficulty to efficiently design and implement their Business Processes using cutting-edge Information Technology. The problem investigated in this paper is the creation and design of executable Business Processes using technologies and standards such as XML, Web Services, and Java. Our proposal, the C.O.S.M.O.S. (Cooperation, Orchestration and Semantic Mapping of Services) environment, is an environment that enables the user to create, design and modify executable Business Processes following the BPEL specification, an XML based language for the Orchestration and Choreography of Web Services. C.O.S.M.O.S. environment, attempts to be a complete and easy to use application for the design of Business Processes. It provides two perspectives for the users: a Manager-oriented interface, that includes a graphical enabled design environment of Business Processes and a Developer-oriented that provides an advanced XML Workflow Editor and functionalities such as validation and deployment of the BPEL Workflow