The University of Hong Kong Center for E-Commerce Infrastructure Development (CECID) announced that the Observatory Service Broker (OSB) has been contributed to the open-source community website. The OSB is one of the project deliverable of Project Plumber. The OSB is an enhanced version of a process-driven enterprise service bus, which supports a choreography-based business process.
Welcome to 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.
Observatory Service Broker Contributed to CECID
Apache Tuscany Java 1.1 Released: SCA Meets Web 2.0
The Apache Tuscany team announced today the 1.1 release of the Java SCA project. Apache Tuscany is a runtime environment based on the Service Component Architecture (SCA). SCA is a new component model that facilitates the construction of composite applications. SCA is a set of specifications initially developed by IBM and BEA which are now being standardized by OASIS as part of the Open Composite Services Architecture (Open CSA). The members of the working group include: BEA, IBM, Primeton, SAP, Sun Microsystems, Oracle, Red Hat, SOA Software, Xcalia...
InfoWorld: Oracle launches Data Integration Suite
Oracle launched on Monday Oracle Data Integration Suite, which combines traditional data integration capabilities with an array of middleware and tooling for constructing a service oriented architecture. Data Integration Suite costs $60,000 per CPU for a package that bundles Oracle Data Integrator and Oracle/Hyperion Data Relationship Manager with the company's BPEL Process Manager, enterprise service bus, application server, business-to-business engine, and business rules engine, according to a statement.
InformIT: Achieving Separation of Concerns Using BPEL
The vast majority of software producers focus exclusively on domain-specific solutions.
InfoQ: Process Component Models: The Next Generation in Workflow?
This article arguments that the gap between the analysis and the implementation of business processes is far bigger then the marketing of today's workflow tools might suggest. Also it will propose a much more realistic way of dealing with this situation. The current standards and initiatives will be explained with enough depth so that you can see how they relate to the movements and why. In the discussions, I'll identify the strengths and weaknesses of each discussed technology and describe the proper and improper ways of using them.