IBM has been an advocate of BPEL since the beginning, and its developerWorks site has a number of pre-existing articles and tutorials that discuss BPEL and various IBM tools and technologies.

Please note that even though several of these articles are only a couple months old, both the products and standards mentioned may have newer revisions. Please check both IBM product versions and BPEL standards versions.

Here are a few of the recent articles you may find of interest:

Scientific Research Corporation (SRC) is an advanced electronic engineering company that was founded in 1988 to provide innovative solutions to the U.S. Government, international markets, and private industry.

In 2005, when Software AG's core crossvision technologies were being developed, they also began investigating SOA orchestration to complement its existing ESB product offering. “We were certainly aware of the BPEL4WS 1.1 specification and the industry activities being undertaken to create a BPEL standard,” explains Dr. Stefan Ried, Vice President of crossvision Product Management, Software AG.

In this case study, Synovus and Active Endpoints demonstrates how
reusing proven code to build new applications, regardless of that
code's origin, allowed the community bank to provide customers with Web
self-service options and other technology benefits usually considered
beyond the reach of a smaller institution. By making the most of its
programming resources, the bank was able to deliver Web services in
line with customers' elevated expectations while keeping its focus on
the personal service customers expect from a community bank.

Welcome to Cape Clear's popular BPEL training course, now available online for the first time. This course uses a combination of video presentations and hands-on exercises to teach you about the key features of BPEL.

Each individual video runs to about 10 minutes and they deliver just over 70 minutes of presentations in total. If you also complete the course exercises, we think most users will complete the course in under a day.