COMPAS - Compliance-driven Models, Languages, and Architectures for Services

COMPAS Prototypes

Business Process Illustrator (BPI) is a web-based tool for monitoring the execution of business processes. It allows to a view a graph of a process model enriched with status information of a process instance. The process graph is refreshed regularly. Additionally the user can adapt the graph by highlighting or omitting activities. The source code, binaries, and installation manual are available for download at the BPI Web Site at SourceForge.

Compliance Governance Dashboards (CGD) aims at reporting on compliance, creating an awareness of possible problems or violations, and facilitating the identification of root-causes for noncompliant situations. For that, CGD concentrates on the most important information at a glance, condensed into just one page. For more information on CGD please visit the CGD Web Site or watch the prototype demo video on YouTube.

Compliance Request Language Tools (CRLT) serves two main purposes. First, it offers the interface for the Compliance Requirements Repository to define, store and maintain compliance requirements in various abstractions together with related aspects such as compliance risks, sources, controls and rules. Second; it enables compliance and business experts to formulate compliance requests at design time for checking end-to-end business processes and process fragments against formalized regulatory compliance requirements. For more information on CRLT please visit the CRLT Web Site.

The Eclipse Coordination Tools (ECT) is a framework for verifiable design of component and service-based software using the coordination language Reo. Reo presents a paradigm for composition of distributed software components and services based on the notion of mobile channels. Software application designers can use Reo as a "glue code" language for compositional construction of connectors that orchestrate the cooperative behavior of components or services. The ECT framework consists of a set of integrated tools that are implemented as plug-ins for the Eclipse platform. ECT provides functionality for converting high-level modeling languages such UML, BPMN and BPEL to Reo, for editing and animation of Reo models, synthesis of automata-based semantical models from Reo, annotation of Reo and automata with QoS constraints and verifying these models using dedicated model checking tools. ECT is an open source project. For more detail and the information how to participate in the development please refer to the Reo Web Site.

Fragmento is a Fragment-oriented Repository that is dedicated to the management of process-related artefacts, such as BPEL processes, WSDL documents, deployment descriptors, and especially, process fragments. Fragmento provides particular functionality in addition to the basic repository functionalities for handling process artefacts (persistence, storage, search, retrieval, version management). Fragmento provides XML schema validation, and provides an extensibility mechanism for integration of additional validation functions. Furthermore Fragmento provides an extensibility mechanism for custom query functions. This allows the implementation of search functions beyond the metadata of a process artefact (e.g., concerning the structure of a process fragment). Fragmento also provides mechanisms for definition of bundles, which allows packaging all artefacts related to a process (or fragment) together into one package. For more information on Fragmento please visit the Fragmento Web Site.

The Model-Aware Repository and Service Environment (Morse) is a service-based environment for the storage and retrieval of models and model-instances at both design- and runtime. Models, and model-elements are identified by Universally Unique Identifiers (UUID) and stored and managed in the Morse repository. The Morse repository provides versioning capabilities so that models can be manipulated at runtime and new and old versions of the models can be maintained in parallel. For more information on Morse please visit the Morse Web Site.

The Pluggable Framework for Apache ODE extends the Apache ODE BPEL engine to support a generic eventing framework. The eventing framework consists of generic events and an architecture for handling the events. The events are tailored towards BPEL, but independent of the concrete engine used. That means, the BPEL engine can be exchanged with another BPEL engine and the events remain the same. Therefore the code dealing with the events does not need to be changed. This is a basis for a BPEL monitoring infrastructure being engine independent. For more information on ODE-PGF please visit the ODE-PGF website.

The View-based Modeling Framework provides flexible, extensible methodology and tooling for modeling, developing, and maintaining business processes based on the notion of view models -- a realization of the separation of concerns principle, and the model-driven development paradigm -- a realization of the separation of abstraction levels. The core concepts of the framework are extended or refined to represent and integrate business compliance concerns. Finally, process implementation, deployment configurations, runtime monitoring directives, and so on, can be automatically generated from view models. For more information on the View-based Modeling Framework please visit the View-based Modeling Framework Web Site.