WebSphere Process Server V6.1 Business Process Choreographer: Concepts and Architecture

Michael Friess, Erich Fussi, Dieter König, Gerhard Pfau, Markus Reichart, Stefan Rüttinger, Claudia Zentner, IBM Development Lab Böblingen, Germany. Business Process Choreographer is the component in IBM® WebSphere® Process Server that provides support for business processes and human tasks. It allows you to model your business process using the Web Services Business Process Execution Language (WS-BPEL), and to model interactions that involve humans using human tasks. Both business processes and human tasks are exposed as services in the Service Component Architecture (SCA). This whitepaper introduces the concepts and architecture for business processes and human tasks as provided by Business Process Choreographer.