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Gregor Hohpe on Conversation Patterns

Topics
Choreography,
Orchestration,
Business Process Management,
SOA

In this interview, recorded at QCon London, Google architect Gregor Hohpe talks to Stefan Tilkov about his new work on conversation patterns. Building upon his earlier work on enterprise integration patterns, Gregor sees conversation patterns as playing a critical role in real-world interactions, with analogies in the natural world.

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HATEOAS as an engine for domain specific protocol-description

Topics
REST,
WOA,
SOA

Explaining HATEOAS is notoriously tricky, In an effort to make it easier, Nick Gall explores the idea of describing it as an engine for domain specific protocol-description.

WS-BPEL Extension for Semantic Web Services (BPEL4SWS)

Topics
Semantic Web,
Business Process Management,
SOA

A new WS-BPEL Extension for Semantic Web Services introduces support for semantic service discovery and invocation in the services integration implementations.

Apache Tuscany Java 1.1 Released: SCA Meets Web 2.0

Topics
Web 2.0,
Open Source,
Javascript,
SOA Appliance,
SOA,
Java,
SOA Platforms,
Grid Computing

The Apache Tuscany team announced today the 1.1 release of the Java SCA project which adds a number of features including a JMS binding or improved policy support. It also supports an implementation extension for representing client side Javascript applications as SCA components which makes SCA a viable technology to simplify Ajax style implementations using JSONRPC or Atom bindings for instance.

Article: The Seven Fallacies of Business Process Execution

Topics
Workflow / BPM,
Business Process Modeling,
SOA

In a new InfoQ article, Jean-Jacques Dubray explores a new architecture blueprint for BPMSs that offers a cleaner alignment between SOA and BPM. Jean-Jacques argues that after more than eight years of intense research, we are still far from having the ability to use the business process models designed by business analysts to create complete executable solutions.

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Process Component Models: The Next Generation In Workflow ?

Topics
Java,
Business Process Modeling,
Workflow / BPM,
Architecture,
Business Process Management,
SOA

Tom Baeyens, founder of JBoss jBPM gives his view of the state of the BPM / workflow market and introdces a new type of workflow technology called process component models.

The Seven Fallacies of Business Process Execution

Topics
Business Process Modeling,
Enterprise Architecture,
Web Services,
Workflow / BPM,
SOA Appliance,
SOA,
Rule Engines,
Domain Specific Languages,
Java,
.NET,
SOA Platforms,
Architecture

After 8+ years of intense research, the promises of BPM have not materialized: we are still far from having the ability to use the business process models designed by business analysts to create complete executable solutions. Some argue that we need to re-engineer BPM standards. In this paper we explore a new architecture blueprint for BPMSs that offers a cleaner alignment between SOA and BPM.

An Introduction to Apache ODE

Topics
Business Process Management,
SOA

In this new InfoQ article, Paul Brown introduces Apache ODE, an open source implementation of the WS-BPEL 2.0 standard. ODE differs from other BPEL engines in that it is delivered as a component rather than a framework for developers looking to add orchestration functionality to their systems. Paul introduces ODE's features by showing how to deploy and execute a simple process.

Interviews about WS-BPEL

Sanjiva Weerawarana on Open Source SOA Middleware

Topics
WS Standards,
Web Services,
REST,
SOA

In this interview, Stefan Tilkov talks to Sanjiva Weerawarana about web services and REST, about core standards that are essential for web services standards, open source SOA tooling, scripting languages and web services, and the strategy of WSO2 in providing open source middleware.