A MDA-based Development Process for Collaborative Business Processes

PABLO VILLARREAL,; ENRIQUE SALOMONE; OMAR CHIOTTI,

Bilbao

Workshop; European Workshop on Milestones, Models and Mappings for Model Driven Architecture, 3M4MDA 2006; 2006

Telematica Instituut & University of Twente, The Netherlands

The modeling and specification of collaborative business processes is a key issue in order to enterprises can implement Business-to-Business collaborations with their partners. These processes have to be defined first in a business level using a technology-independent language and then in a technological level using a Business-to-Business standard. Both definitions must have a mutual correspondence. To support the above issues, the Model-Driven Architecture (MDA) Initiative has been identified as a key enabler to build a modeldriven development method. In this paper, we describe a MDA approach for collaborative business processes. We present the phases, artifacts (models and code), languages, mappings and transformation techniques that make up the development process of this MDA approach. We identify the issues to be taken into account in a MDA approach for collaborative processes, in order to guaranteethat the generated B2B specifications fulfill the collaborative processes agreed between the partners in a business level.