SOA Governance is the key to a successful adoption of Service-Oriented
Architecture. It is the process of establishing a desired outcome for
your efforts, and then leveraging people, policies, and processes to
make that outcome a reality. This includes technical policies and
standards that guide your design-time activities, policies and
processes that impact your project selection and funding decisions, and
finally run-time policies that impact your operational management
activities. The adoption of Service-Oriented Architecture is intended

BPEL2oWFN translates a web service expressed in WS-BPEL into a Petri net model.

The model can be used for computer-aided verification (model checking). Furthermore, the model can be used to

Intalio|BPMS is a complete business process management suite that uses the Apache Foundation's excellent Orchestration Director Engine (a.k.a. ODE) to process BPEL passed onto it.

BPMN is used to model processes in Intalio|BPMS Designer, which you can deploy to Intalio|BPMS Server to generate a model-driven application.

Ease of use was in mind when writing Intalio|BPMS, and therefore the model to application step has been simplified to a single click, "Deploy".

Apache ODE (Orchestration Director Engine) executes business processes written following the WS-BPEL standard. It talks to web services, sending and receiving messages, handling data manipulation and error recovery as described by your process definition. It supports both long and short living process executions to orchestrate all the services that are part of your application.

JBoss jBPM is a framework that delivers workflow, business process management (BPM), and orchestration in a scalable and flexible product. It enables enterprises to model and automate business processes that involve people, applications, and services.

The distinctive sign of JBoss jBPM is the power of choice it gives to analysts and developers. A generic process execution platform lies at the core of the product. Multiple process definition languages are built on top: BPEL, jPDL and Pageflow. Each comes with a unique feature set.