To gain a greater understanding of concept of SOA applications, BPEL processes and Java Business Integration (JBI) applications and to enable us to develop enterprise level SOA applications, we need to understand JBI in further depth, and how JBI components can be linked together. This article by Frank Jennings and David Salter shows how the JBI Service Engine is supported within the NetBeans Enterprise Pack.

The article discusses the following topics:

This note by Frank Leymann, Dieter Roller, and Satish Thatte aims to set forward the goals and principals that formed the basis for the work of the original authors of the BPEL4WS specification. The note is set in context to reflect the considerations that went into the work, rather than being presented as a set of axioms. Much of this material is abstracted from comments and explanations embedded in the text of the specification itself.

Part one in this series describes how to create an example business process that combines a set of fictional travel-related Web services and then deploy that process to the Oracle BPEL Process Manager runtime environment.

Part two presents more-advanced concepts that will enable you to use BPEL to model complex processes.

by Matjaz B. Juric, Oracle

This paper suggests how to map BPEL descriptions into inter-organizational model descriptions, thus opening the door to generating SNet simulations of business processes from BPEL descriptions.

by Dominik Schmitz, Gerhard Lakemeyer, Gunter Gans, and Matthias Jarke

Produced by the OASIS WS-BPEL Technical Committee, this primer is a supplementary document to WS-BPEL 2.0 specifications. The primer provides a brief explanation of all the key features of WS-BPEL with the help of a practical use case and numerous examples. The primer is intended towards business process analysts, software developers/architects and system integrators who want to know the basics features of WS-BPEL.