Posts for the 'BPEL' Category

Comparison of SOA Suites

Sunday, June 17th, 2007
Several SOA vendors are trying to put together comprehensive suites of SOA products that in theory should be capable of addressing all aspects of SOA, including governance, integration, business process management and others. Formation of SOA suites is having a tremendous impacts on how SOA products are selected as many organizations are being tempted to settle [...]

Limits of Visual Service Orchestration

Monday, May 29th, 2006
Visual tools for designing message or process flows are part of many ESB products. BPM products supporting BPEL or BPMN also heavily rely on visual tools. Flowchart-like visual notation used by these tools represents a specialized language that includes all elements of structural programming ("if-then-else", "while" and so on). Unfortunately, these languages have very limited support [...]

BPEL, SCA and Refactoring

Monday, December 5th, 2005
With the advent of SOA and SOA -related technologies and standards, such as WSDL , BPEL, and, more recently, SCA and SDO, more and more application metadata (and just plain data) is externalized into XML . XML is used for: Flow definitions (BPEL). […]

BPEL as a Modeling Tool

Thursday, September 29th, 2005
BPEL can be used to implement workflow and business processes. In theory, BPEL is not tied up with Web services or SOA since all J2EE BPEL vendors support callouts to EJB , JMS or even POJOs in their BPEL implementations (BPELWS, BPELJ ). BPEL has some interesting capabilities, such as the support for asynchronous and […]