Experiences with business process model and notation for modeling integration patterns

Abstract

Enterprise Integration Patterns (EIP) are a collection of widely used best practices for integrating enterprise applications. However, a formal integration model is missing, such as Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) from the workflow domain. There, BPMN is a "de-facto" standard for modeling business process semantics and their runtime behavior. In this work we present the mapping of integration semantics represented by EIPs to the BPMN syntax and execution semantics. We show that the resulting runtime independent, BPMN-based integration model can be applied to a real-world integration scenario through compilation to an open source middleware system. Based on that system, we report on our practical experiences with BPMN applied to the integration domain. © 2014 Springer International Publishing Switzerland.