International Business Machines Corporation

Johanna Ang'ani

Gerd Breiter

Michael Man Behrendt

Marc Schwind

Monika Illgner-Kurz

The invention is based on Orders specifically developed for and processed by an Order Processing Environment for creation or modification of resource topologies. The Order Processing Environment is partly replaced by a combination of an Order Transformation Environment and standard Workflow Engines in order to execute the Order by standard Workflow Engines. The Order Transformation Environment needs to get two inputs. The first input is the resource topology which is retrieved by using the Relationship Registry of the Order Processing Environment. The second input is the Order. Orders are resource topology independent and include resource specific tasks without arranging those in a sequence. Tasks provide actions for creating and/or modifying resource topologies. The transformation is based on above two inputs resulting in a static standard based workflow. The static, standards-based workflow (e.g. BPEL-based) can then be executed by standards-based process/workflow engines. This enables users to exploit the flexibility of orders while still being able to leverage the broad set of tooling and runtime products available across the IT industry.

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Berlin, Germany

Johanna Ang'ani