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Gregor Hohpe on Conversation Patterns

Topics
WSDL,
BPEL,
WS-BPEL,
Business Process Management,
Web Services,
SOA,
Business,
Orchestration,
Infrastructure,
Choreography,
Architecture,
Transactions,
WS-CDL,
Enterprise Architecture

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.

News about WS-BPEL

HATEOAS as an engine for domain specific protocol-description

Topics
WS-BPEL,
Business Process Management,
SOA,
Business,
WOA,
REST,
Architecture,
Enterprise Architecture,
WADL,
HATEOAS

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
WS-BPEL,
Business Process Management,
Semantic Web,
SOA,
W3C,
Business,
Enterprise Architecture,
Architecture,
Specifications,
OMG

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

Web services orchestration engine Apache ODE 1.2 Released

Topics
Apache ODE,
WS-BPEL,
BPEL,
Business Process Management,
Open Source,
SOA,
Business,
Orchestration,
Architecture,
Enterprise Architecture,
SOA Appliance,
Programming,
Infrastructure

The Apache ODE team announced this month the 1.2 release of the Apache ODE project. These releases includes many new features, including external variables,support for WSDL HTTP binding and REST-style Web Services advanced endpoint configuration, and a lot of small improvements and bug fixes.

Apache Tuscany Java 1.1 Released: SCA Meets Web 2.0

Topics
WS-BPEL,
JSON,
Javascript,
Java,
SOA Platforms,
Dynamic Languages,
Web Development,
Business Process Management,
Markup Languages,
SOA,
Languages,
Open Source,
AJAX,
Web 2.0,
Grid Computing,
Business,
Enterprise Architecture,
Programming,
Architecture,
SOA Appliance,
Rich Internet Apps,
Service Component Architecture,
Atom

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.

Unified Rules Engine and Processes

Topics
JBoss Rules,
JBoss,
RedHat,
Application Servers,
WS-BPEL,
Companies,
Java,
Business Process Management,
Languages,
SOA,
Business,
Enterprise Architecture,
Rule Engines,
Architecture,
Programming

Mark Proctor, the JBoss Drools Project Lead, and Kris Verlaenen the Ruleflow lead present their vision for unifying rules and processes to provide a truly unified modeling environment with rules and processes as first class citizens, tightly integrated modeling GUIs, single unified engine and apis for compilation/building, deployment and runtime execution.

Article: An introduction to Apache ODE

Topics
Apache ODE,
WS-BPEL,
BPEL,
Business Process Management,
Business,
SOA,
WS-Star,
Architecture,
Enterprise Architecture

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.

Articles about WS-BPEL

Process Component Models: The Next Generation In Workflow ?

Topics
Workflow / BPM,
Business Process Modeling,
BPEL,
WS-BPEL,
Java,
Business Process Management,
SOA,
Languages,
Business,
Architecture,
Programming,
Enterprise Architecture

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,
Workflow / BPM,
WSO2,
WSDL,
WS-BPEL,
Java,
Business Process Management,
Companies,
Domain Specific Languages,
Web Services,
SOA Platforms,
.NET,
SOA,
Languages,
Business,
Enterprise Architecture,
Architecture,
Programming,
SOA Appliance,
Rule Engines,
Service Component 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
BPEL,
WS-BPEL,
Business Process Management,
Business,
SOA,
Enterprise Architecture,
WS-Star,
Architecture

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-Trust,
WS-Security,
WS Standards,
WSDL,
WSO2,
WS-BPEL,
Web Services,
Business Process Management,
WCF,
SOA Platforms,
Companies,
SOA,
Business,
REST,
.NET,
Architecture,
Enterprise Architecture,
WS-AtomicTransactions,
Programming,
WS-Star,
WS-Coordination,
WS-BusinessActivity,
WS-ReliableMessaging

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.