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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2015
Filed:
Aug. 09, 2013
Oracle International Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Yogesh Kumar, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Glenn Weiqun Mi, Saratoga, CA (US);
Muruganantham Chinnananchi, Mountain View, CA (US);
Michal Chmielewski, San Jose, CA (US);
Murali Pottlapelli, Chino, CA (US);
Ronald Ten-Hove, Concord, MA (US);
Simone Geib, San Francisco, CA (US);
Oracle International Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for enabling reuse of a portion of a business process. An example method includes employing a business process language to facilitate accessing a definition of a subprocess characterizing the process logic, wherein the definition indicates one or more parameters to be used by the subprocess to implement a task specified by the process logic; and employing the definition to facilitate: using one or more variables of a parent process as one or more arguments that are passed to an instantiated version of the subprocess, and mapping the one or more arguments to the one or more parameters. In a more specific embodiment, the example method further includes characterizing a behavior of the subprocess via one or more dynamic scoping rules. The business process language includes a version of Business Process Execution Language (BPEL), and a BPEL extension activity facilitates defining the subprocess.