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.
Since before it was first announced that BPEL4People/WS-HumanTask were heading for a standards body, there has been a lot of interest around this new attempt to provide a standard in BPM. BPEL (aka WS-BPEL) has continued to split the workflow community, so isn't this the same fate for BPEL4People? Well the technical committee has had its first face-to-face meeting, so we took the opportunity to talk with several of the people behind the work.
Read the complete interview by Mark Little at InfoQ.
David A. Chappell writes about a concrete example of one of Oracle’s customers, Verizon Wireless, who is in the process of going green by rewriting their fraud detection application using SOA, EDA, and Web 2.0, and as a result plan to eliminate 6 tons of hardware from their datacenter, and reduce power consumption by 99.5% from 200 kW/h down to 1100 W/h.
An international consultancy is looking for an experienced Websphere Designer to join them on a 3-month contract with a good chance of an extension. The candidate will work as a member of a solution team under the direction of a solution lead for the area in which they work in, and reporting day-to-day to the elaboration phase project manager. The successful candidate will have the following skills and experience Exposure to Service Oriented Architecture development.
