Process model transformation for event-based coordination of composite applications

A process model (104) specified using, for example, UML activity diagrams can be translated into an event-based model that can be executed on top of a coordination middleware (116). For example, a process model (104) may be encoded as a collection of coordinating objects (126, 128) that interact with each other through a coordination middleware including a shared memory space (124). This approach is suitable for undertaking post-deployment adaptation of process-oriented composite applications. In particular, new control dependencies can be encoded by dropping new (or enabling existing) coordinating objects (126, 128) into the space and/or disabling existing ones.