• Understand the difference between run-time and design-time SOA governance.
• Leverage SOA management and SOA Registry/Repository tools in your governance efforts.
• Define governance processes that will work in the culture of your organization.
• Determine the people in your organization that must be involved in the governance efforts.
• Define the policies that will help your organization achieve its SOA goals.

 To achieve business agility  that a business user can actually configure and orchestrate SOA services, a business process modeling tool  must provide high-fidelity and robust transformation between BPMN models and implementation code: BPEL and Web Services. 

Modeling business processes for SOA and developing end-to-end IT support has become one of the top IT priorities. The SOA approach is based on services and on processes. Processes are focused on composition of services and in that sense services become process activities.

Modeling business processes for SOA and developing end-to-end IT support has become one of the top IT priorities. The SOA approach is based on services and on processes. Processes are focused on composition of services and in that sense services become process activities.

This article examines the Apache Foundation's implementation of WS-BPEL 2.0, the Orchestration Director Engine (ODE) 1.1. It describes how to create your own BPEL process and integrate it into your application. The authors are Ilya Platonov of Axmor, and Artem Papkov and Jim Smith of IBM.