Process-Oriented Behavior Generation Using Interaction Patterns

Model-driven approaches have shown that the systematic use of models and model transformations can facilitate the development process of distributed applications. Abstract models can be used to (automatically) generate more detailed models, to simulate and execute application’s behavior in early stages, to validate it against requirements, or to generate executable code. These models also document the design at different abstraction levels, and, therefore, facilitate the communication between stakeholders with different roles, such as business and IT people. This paper investigates the use of the Business Process Model Notation (BPMN) in MDA to represent application behavior at different abstraction levels. Particularly, we propose the use of interaction patterns represented as BPMN choreographies to generate executable behaviors represented as BPMN orchestrations.