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Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) is part of a long history of defining

Web services-based business processes. This tutorial from SearchSOA.com dives
deep into the features of BPEL and how it fits with related standards such as
REST, WSDL, and BPMN. In this BPEL tutorial you will find articles, tips, expert
advice, white papers and more that explain how BPEL fits into the world of Web
services.

Contents
Introduction
What is BPEL?
BPEL tips and expert advice
How is BPEL used?
BPEL products

Introduction
Business Process Execution Language (BPEL), short for Web Services Business
Process Execution Language (WS-BPEL), is an executable dialect of XML that
allows for the modeling of interactions between Web services on the cloud. Such BPEL
modeling is valuable for successful business process management (BPM) and
NEWS, TIPS & MORE
service-oriented architecture (SOA) implementation. BPEL was standardized by
OASIS in 2004, after collaborative efforts to create the language by Microsoft, IBM, BPEL, ready for people: Integrating Web ... (ARTICLE)
and other companies. Where does BPEL fit in? (TIP)
BPEL tutorial (TUTORIAL)
In order to streamline the BPM modeling process, BPEL uses easy-to-understand Oracle SOA Suite Developer's Guide by Matt ... (BOOK
commands that perform complex functions. Because BPEL is human-readable it EXCERPT)
allows for collaboration between business people and developers. VIEW MORE

VENDOR CONTENT
One of BPEL's primary uses is to model Web service interactions on a distributed
system. BPEL allows for complex orchestrations of multiple service applications Implementation Brief: Active Endpoints’ ActiveVOS BPMS
- ENABLING DYNAMIC GROWTH (ANALYST BRIEF)
through a single controller service. When described in a corresponding WSDL
Enterprise Data Services in SOA using ODI Suite (WHITE
contract, that process can be seen as a service in and of itself. If you want to PAPER)
describe a BPEL process in WSDL, there are important considerations and steps State of the Business Process Management Market 2008
to take. (WHITE PAPER)
eGuide: SOA Implementation (EGUIDE)
Before it's written in WSDL, though, a BPEL process must work properly. Because
many BPEL processes use multiple applications, many of which are often written in SEE ALSO

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different languages and located on distributed systems, proper end-to-end testing Related Topics:
is paramount. Several new SOA governance products and product updates BPEL , BPMN
recently came out that address that challenge with BPEL in mind, including 3 new Site Highlights:
editions of Sparx's Enterprise Architect 7.5. ESB Tutorial
Enterprise Mashups guide
BPEL is often associated with Business Process Management Notation (BPMN), GET E-MAIL UPDATES
which also seeks to streamline the BPM modeling process. Unlike BPEL, BPMN is
not executable and so is mostly used for planning and design. BPMN, though, has Submit your e-mail below to receive SOA-related news,
a visual component that makes it easier to understand for business people not tech tips and more, delivered to your inbox.
familiar with programming. Many companies have developed their own visual Business Process Management (BPM)
notation for BPEL to further simplify the language. SOA Governance

BPEL and BPMN have grown in popularity together over the last few years as each E-mail:
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remains a challenge. The co-evolution of BPEL and BPMN continues to drive BPM
and SOA settings.

Alternatively, you may choose to not use BPEL at all. Some have accused BPEL of
being "overly complex," and seek a different approach to business process SOA Data Architecture Solutions - Data Services,
integration. Thrift, an open-source project formally under the guidance of Facebook Business Intelligence, XQuery
and now housed with Apache, eases cross-language services development in a
dozen supported languages.
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What is BPEL?
BPEL defintion
BPEL (Business Process Execution Language) for Web services is an XML-based
language designed to enable task-sharing for a distributed computing or grid
computing environment.

BPEL best practices

Find BPEL basics, best practices and tutorials for software architecture developers
and IT management working on service-oriented architecture and Web services
projects. This topics page is filled with the latest articles, tips, expert advice, and
tutorials on SearchSOA.com.

WS-Coordination
WS-Coordination (Web Services Coordination) is an IT industry standard for how
individual Web services can interact in order to accomplish an application task.
WS-Coordination can be used with BPEL to help coordinate a transaction.

WS-Transaction
The WS-Transaction (Web services Transaction) interface defines what constitutes
a transaction and what will determine when it has completed successfully. WS-
Transaction can be used with BPEL to help contextualize a transaction.
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BPEL tips and expert advice

BPMN with BPEL, an ongoing debate
Bruce Silver has made some strong points on why Business Process Execution
Language (BPEL) does not make modeling with Business Process Modeling
Notation (BPMN) simpler. Active Endpoints CTO Michael Rowley, though, claims
that BPMN2.0 with BPEL is simpler than the new BPMN execution language. Read
the two sides of the debate.

Service contracts for BPEL 2.0

The BPEL orchestration standard allows for contract-first Web services design
inside an SOA. This tip identifies best practices for using BPEL and WSDL for
service contracts.

Co-evolution of BPMN and BPEL drives BPM in SOA settings

The SOA industry often likes to pit standards against each other in "standards
wars." Learn why BPMN vs BPEL seems to be a case where co-evolution and
collaboration might be the rule.

MiniGuide: End-to-end testing for SOA and enterprise transactions

Now, increasingly, it is held that the best way now to understand the behavior of a
complex distributed system is by ''following the transaction.'' This mini-guide
provides articles with tips and advice for end-to-end testing of transactions, and
how BPEL can help.

BPEL vs. workflow foundation

Sri Nagabhirava discusses the differences between BPEL and workflow foundation
and which is best at building a composite Web service.

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How is BPEL used?

Where does BPEL fit in?
BPEL is part of a long history of defining Web services-based business processes.
In this tip, discover the features of BPEL and how it fits with related standards such
as REST, WSDL, and BPMN. Also, examine some of the trends which provide the
background for languages like BPEL, such as coordinating complex systems and
diagramming processes.

With MDM, BPM and BPEL, business users may become data stewards
Just as order entry has largely become the province of the end user, front-line
business people may someday take on a greater role as data stewards. With widely
deployed MDM, this may happen, and it may be monitored by BPM-oriented
Business Process Execution Language-authored (BPEL-authored) business rules.

Online real estate SOA moves into BPEL

Read how Move Inc., an online real estate services provider, uses BPEL in the
integration of legacy systems and new CRM and ERP products as the first step in
an incremental "pragmatic SOA" implementation.

Verizon uses BPEL app to cut down on code, check for fraud, and go green
Verizon Wireless employed Oracle BPEL Manager with a rules engine to study call
patterns. Learn how that led to a reduction in lines of Java code for an app that
provides fraud detection teams with better information for decision making. It also
used less hardware, reducing IT energy consumption.

SOA, BPEL working on the railroad

Commuter trains in the San Francisco, California area will soon be issuing tickets
from a new SOA-based ticketing system, which combines BPEL, wireless handheld
devices and a legacy data center.

Thrift: A pragmatic approach to service integration

Establishing communication between disparate technology platforms is one of the
holy grails in enterprise computing. Thrift seeks to ease cross-language services
development in an effort to alleviate that problem, perhaps as an alternative to
BPEL.
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BPEL products
Sparx Systems upgrades Enterprise Architect 7.5
Sparx Systems recently announced the release of three new editions and an
upgrade of its Unified Modeling Language (UML) based modeling and design tool,
Enterprise Architect 7.5, which includes new tools for BPEL users.

WSO2 launches Carbon modular SOA framework with OSGi flavor

Open-source specialist WSO2 has recast its core software offerings as the
"Carbon," which uses OSGi to achieve a more modular service-oriented
architecture (SOA) framework.

BPEL4People and WS-HumanTask get reference implementation

Although BPEL4People and WS-HT aren't fully ratified standards, Active EndPoints
Inc., one of the leaders of the standards effort, is incorporating them into its new
tools for BPM and SOA design and development.
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