Extending Swarm Communication to Unify Choreography and Long-lived Processes

The usual way of doing message passing is to have relatively intelligent processes, objects or actors sending and receiving dumb messages. Swarm communication presents the inverted approach of thinking to messages as relatively smart beings, visiting relatively non intelligent places, to produce better code and a new path for integrating complex applications. Swarm communication can be used as software architecture for an Enterprise Service Bus. This paper extends the swarm communication to support long-lived processes, providing an alternative approach to the standard techniques for executable Business Process Management. The ubiquity of connected devices is a fertile ground for new approaches to application development and systems integration based on complex business processes.