Ask a question from others
Forum topic: Submitted by hongsoft on 27. May 2008 - 5:45.
I ask a question from others.
"We developed a product based on XPDL,but our customers asked us about BPEL/B4P, so we want to integrate a BPEL product in our product.
we find that we can do anything what BPEL/B4P can do by XPDL, including web-service function. I don't know what is the benefits of BPEL/B4P comparing with XPDL? Why i need a BPEL product?”
why bpel and not xpdl?
I think, it is a strategic decision based on customer demand. We decided for BPEL quite a few years ago, because BPEL was the most mature standard, and with the broughtest industry support.
It might be hard to explain to your customers why you do not have BPEL, even when they do not get a real advantage out of it (in practise BPEL reuse tends to be seldom yet. Abstract BPEL for templates and protocol definitions is seldomly used)
Greetings
Bernd
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Chief Architect (R&D) SEEBURGER.com
http://bernd.eckenfels.net