Friday, December 18, 2009

JBoss Riftsaw - Open Source BPEL

Riftsaw supports short-lived and long-running process executions, process persistence and recovery, process versioning, JBoss deployment architecture enabling hot deployment of your BPEL processes and integration with JBossESB and UDDI using jUDDI. An Eclipse-based BPEL designer is bundled with JBossTools 3.1.

Riftsaw is based on Apache Ode, and adds support to run on any JAX-WS compliant WebServices stack and it ships with a new GWT based Admin console.

From BPEL to the ESB and Back - Introduction to the Riftsaw-JBoss ESB Integration

jBPM goes BPMN!

http://www.jorambarrez.be/blog/2009/12/04/jbpm-goes-bpmn/

What is BPMN2?
Basically, the Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) started out a pure graphical notation standard for business processes, maintained by the Object Management Group (OMG). Version 2.0, which currently is in beta, adds execution semantics to the specification and this is of course where it gets interesting for jBPM.

The primary benefit of BPMN2 is that it is a standard accepted by the IT industry, which means that process models become portable (graphical and execution-wise) across process engines such as jBPM. Since process executions are the raison-d-ĂȘtre of jBPM, it is only natural we are now investing in BPMN2. People who are familiar with JPDL (the current native language of jBPM) will have generally no difficulties in learning the BPMN2 language, as many constructs and concepts are shared. In fact, from a high-level point of view, BPMN2 and JPDL are in concept solving the same problem

What is different jBPM and Riftsaw?

Riftsaw is based up-on Apache ODE and there is no BPEL engine available on top of the PVM(Process Virtual Machine). There is no BPEL in jBPM4 anymore. There is just jPDL and BPMN2 which is still in development.

jBPM3 BPEL is a BPEL 1.x implementation while Riftsaw is a BPEL 2.0 implementation.

SCA Spring in Weblogic 10.3.2 & Soa Suite 11g

Are you ready for SCA? Currently, the SCA is much more popular. The follow links are a introduction of SCA Spring on WebLogic 10g.

SCA Spring in Weblogic 10.3.2 & Soa Suite 11g
SCA Spring in Weblogic 10.3.2 & Soa Suite 11g Part 2