Paper Info
Title
Open Source versus Proprietary Software in Service-Orientation: The Case of BPEL Engines.
Abstract
It is a long-standing debate, whether software that is developed as open source is generally of higher quality than proprietary software. Although the open source community has grown immensely during the last decade, there is still no clear answer. Service-oriented software and middleware tends to rely on highly complex and interrelated standards and frameworks. Thus, it is questionable if small and loosely coupled teams, as typical in open source software development, can compete with major vendors. Here, we focus on a central part of service-oriented software systems, i.e., process engines for service orchestration, and compare open source and proprietary solutions. We use the Web Services Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) and compare standard conformance and its impact on language expressiveness in terms of workflow pattern support of eight engines. The results show that, although the top open source engines are on par with their proprietary counterparts, in general proprietary engines perform better.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1007/978-3-642-45005-1_8
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Keywords
Field
DocType
open source,SOA,BPEL,patterns,conformance testing
Middleware,World Wide Web,Open platform,Computer science,Service-orientation,Software system,Software,Business Process Execution Language,Orchestration (computing),Open-source software development
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
8274
0302-9743
13
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.73
17
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Simon Harrer1869.99
Jörg Lenhard210012.50
Guido Wirtz345066.55