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BPEL4People advances toward the mainstream

http://blogs.zdnet.com/service-oriented/?p=1061

Joe McKendrick: BPEL (Business Process Execution Language) is too machine-oriented, catering to applications talking to other applications, they say. Most business processes need the human touch somewhere along the line. Consider these un-automatable scenarios: A process may need an executive’s approval to proceed any further. Work may flow like a river, but it also encounters plenty of waterfalls, dams and locks on the way - points at which humans may need to jump in to keep things moving. Workflows are as unique as the companies that create them, and all have their own points where humans intercede.
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BPEL XML.org

http://bpel.xml.org/

This is the official community gathering place and information resource for the WS-BPEL OASIS Standard and related specifications. BPEL uses Web services standards to describe business process activities as Web services, defining how they can be composed to accomplish specific tasks. This is a community-driven site, and the public is encouraged to contribute content.
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BPEL4People and WS-HumanTask to OASIS

http://blogs.msdn.com/jevdemon/archive/2008/01/08/bpel4people-and-ws-humantask-to-oasis.aspx

The BPEL4People and WS-HumanTask specs are headed to OASIS, resulting in a new BPEL4People Technical Committee (TC) - expect to see an announcement and call for participation soon. The TC will focus on defining human interactions (human tasks) as part of a WS-BPEL process, enabling these definitions to be exposed as web services.
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Active Endpoints Delivers BPEL4People Tool

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2160675,00.asp

By Darryl K. Taft, eWeek 20 July 2007. Active Endpoints, which makes SOA orchestration solutions, is rolling out ActiveBPEL for People, a product that adds workflow and human interaction capabilities to the company's ActiveBPEL Enterprise servers. Fred Holahan, founder and chairman of Active Endpoints, of Shelton, Conn., said the company based its technology on the emerging BPEL4People specifications, which bring the human element to the BPEL (Business Process Execution Language). ActiveBPEL for People, which became generally available July 19, is architecturally aligned with both the BPEL4People and WS-HumanTask specifications, which form the foundation of standards-based human interaction using BPEL, Holahan said. Active Endpoints - along with Adobe Systems, BEA Systems, IBM, Oracle and SAP - co-authored BPEL4People and WS-HumanTask, he said.
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Is BPEL Positioned for the Future?

http://www.intelligententerprise.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=198100657

By Erik R. Pieczkowski. Integrating disparate systems and applications into end-to-end business processes has always been a challenge. Web services emerged as a means to expose the functionality of these systems across the enterprise, but Web services, by themselves, don't address the need to integrate and coordinate business processes. Business Process Execution Language, or BPEL, also known as BPEL4WS and WS-BPEL, addresses that weakness by providing a model for how business processes are handled by Web services. Although the BPEL specification has been around for more than five years, the pending WS-BPEL 2.0 specification is more precise; it clarifies and corrects many ambiguities and positions the specification well for future versions.
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Is BPEL Positioned for the Future?

http://www.networkcomputing.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=198000132

The Web Services spec brings enhancements, improves portability of business processes and clarifies ambiguities present in its previous version.
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Windows Workflow Foundation for Web services

http://searchwebservices.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid26_gci1204115,00.html?track=NL-305&ad=559416&asrc=EM_TNL_387411&uid=4830881

Workflows lend themselves to the granular nature of services. In other words, services fulfill a very small unit of work in favor of being reusable for many different scenarios, this in turn creates the possibility of stitching together an innumerable number of outcomes as workflows, so at a very simplistic level a workflow is nothing more than a series of services glued together to fulfill a particular business process. In the very specific case of services, many approaches have emerged to solve this workflow problem: WSFL (Web Services Flow Language), XLANG (Web Services for Business Process Design) and BPEL (Business Process Execution Language), to name a few. Among them, the one with the most traction is without a doubt BPEL, in part due to its backing not only from major industry vendors, but also from boutique shops specializing in service-oriented architectures. But while BPEL provides the semantics and depth to orchestrate elaborate Web services scenarios, it's still relegated to a niche status confined to the services world. If you ponder the aspect of creating workflows strictly from services, you will arrive at the very realistic conclusion that workflows in many enterprises require the integration of non-serviceable legacy applications or even non-system human tasks, workflows that would fall beyond the scope of BPEL or any other orchestration technique currently applicable to SOA. In light of this last possibility comes Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) .
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On BPMN

http://itredux.com/blog/2006/07/20/on-bpmn/

Over the past couple of years, the Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) has established itself as the de-facto standard for process modeling. Nevertheless, an impedance mismatch exists between BPMN and BPEL, one of its target execution languages. What follows is the view of Assaf Arkin, Intalio CTO and co-author of the BPML and BPEL specifications, on this critical subject.
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BPEL: Service composition for SOA

http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-07-2006/jw-0710-bpel.html

Get started developing business processes based on the Business Process Execution Language. In this article, an excerpt from Business Process Execution Language for Web Services, 2nd Edition, by Matjaz Juric, Poornachandra Sarang, and Benny Mathew (Packt Publishing, January 2006; ISBN 1904811817), Juric explains the importance of the Business Process Execution Language to service-oriented architecture and shows readers how to develop their own BPEL processes.
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Enabling flexible distributed business processes with SOA - an illustration

http://searchwebservices.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid26_gci1197712,00.html

Service-oriented architectures holds the promise to radically change business processes by replacing tightly coupled proprietary interfaces and data formats with standards-based reusable business interfaces. Conventional business processes and roles tend to be defined within company boundaries and focus on managing activities with the help of information available in tightly coupled enterprise information systems like ERP. In traditional systems, even the applications that ideally required loose coupling such as SCM and CRM were also built to be hardwired to the existing ERP suite. The resulting system architecture offered efficiency, security and predictability, but at the same time took away flexibility and hence any scope of evolution of the process concerned.
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Architecting the SOA registry/repository

http://searchwebservices.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid26_gci1195957,00.html?track=NL-110&ad=556387

Flashline's new automation features for its namesake registry/repository designed to automatically populate, track and update metadata for Web services and other assets in SOA implementations, particularly with Microsoft Visio architectural diagrams. Also part of the release, BPEL introspection into Flashline provides similar accessibility throughout an enterprise for viewing the business processes involved in an SOA.
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BPEL Cookbook: Best Practices for SOA-based integration and composite applications development

http://www.packtpub.com/BPEL_SOA/book

Book published by Packt Publishing in June 2006. Ten practical real-world case studies combining business process management and web services orchestration. Real-world BPEL recipes for SOA integration and Composite Application development. Combining business process management and web services orchestration. Authors: Matjaz Juric, Stany Blanvalet, Jeremy Bolie, Michael Cardella, Sean Carey, Praveen Chandran, Yves Coene, Kevin Geminiuc, Arun Poduval, Lawrence Pravin, Jerry Thomas, Doug Todd, The Hoa Nguyen, Markus Zirn, Harish Gaur
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An Introduction to BPEL

http://www.developer.com/services/article.php/3609381

By Kumar Raj Moorthy. Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) is a XML-based language used to define enterprise business processes within Web services.
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ActiveBPEL Engine

http://www.activebpel.org/

The ActiveBPEL engine is an open source BPEL server, a robust runtime environment that is capable of executing process definitions created to the Business Process Execution Language for Web Services (BPEL4WS, or just BPEL) 1.1 specifications.
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The Case Against BPEL: Why the Language is Less Important Than You Think

http://www.davidchappell.com/HTML_email/Opinari_No14_10_05.html

David Chappell: Even amid all of the noise around web services, the Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) gets a lot of attention. Now owned by OASIS, the language was originally created by IBM and Microsoft, and it's supported today in many products. These products are certainly useful, and some organizations are using BPEL successfully. Yet the language gets far more attention than it deserves. Here's why.
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BPEL 2.0 is delayed

http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/10/28/HNbpel_1.html

Business process specification won't get final nod until next year. By Paul Krill, InfoWorld, October 28, 2005
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BPEL gets bopped - again

http://blogs.zdnet.com/service-oriented/?p=460

Blog entry from Joe McKendrick, October 28, 2005
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SOA Best Practices: The BPEL Cookbook

http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/bpel_cookbook/index.html

Learn advanced BPEL concepts and best practices for development, deployment, and administration from the architects implementing them in real-world applications.
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BPEL - Integration's White Knight or White Elephant?

http://www.webservices.org/index.php/ws/content/view/full/51694

The world suddenly seems full of BPEL announcements from application server vendors, EAI vendors and ESB vendors. After all, the BPEL standard enables the automation of business processes – and we all want to do that. But as with everything in life, the key to getting to best out of BPEL is identifying what it does well and using it in moderation. Ronan Bradley, 10 Jan, 2005
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Process Driven Organization

http://www.processdriven.org/

Process driven organizations enable flexible, adpatable, business processes that are liberated from underlying IT systems. Process optimization is accomplished using platform nuetral, service oriented, loosely coupled, distributed omputing solutions including web services and BPEL4WS.
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Business Flows with BPEL4WS

http://www.sys-con.com/WebServices/articlenews.cfm?id=572

Doron Sherman, CTO of Collaxa, "BPEL4WS is now moving rapidly into becoming the de facto standard for Web service orchestration with most platform vendors following in IBM and Microsoft footsteps after the submission of the specification to OASIS. This increased momentum and visibility will drive a great need for educating developers on how to put BPEL to work."
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Automating business processes and transactions in Web services

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/ws-autobp/?loc=dwmain

James Snell's introduction to BPELWS, WS-Coordination, and WS-Transaction
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BPEL4WS: Another big step for Web service standards

http://searchwebservices.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid26_gci849630,00.html

IBM, Microsoft and BEA Systems has proposed a set specifications to add transactional support to the Web services foundation and outlined a common approach to define and implement business processes. WS-Transaction + WS-Coordination + Business Process Execution Language for Web Services.
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Bleepin' BPELs

http://www.eweek.com/print_article/0,3668,a=41037,00.asp

Is it possible that something once pronounced Bipple and now Be-PEL is shaking up the Web services world? Is something as dry as Business Process Execution Language (BPEL4WS) signaling an important split in Web services standards groups? Are Microsoft, IBM and BEA icing Oracle and Sun and their customers?
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Business Process Execution Language for Web Services version 1.1

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/ws-bpel/

BPEL4WS provides a language for the formal specification of business processes and business interaction protocols. By doing so, it extends the Web Services interaction model and enables it to support business transactions. BPEL4WS defines an interoperable integration model that should facilitate the expansion of automated process integration in both the intra-corporate and the business-to-business spaces.
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