BPEL
As we are planning and prototyping a new technology for web based business applications at form4, I am constantly looking for future proof components for not only the use case but the business case view.
So I started with a little research abount workflow engines like jBPM and ended up with BPEL and some articles about this language. Well, one interesting aspect is the business process perspective and a second is the independence of the implementation technology.
For some reasons we focus on MDA by using UML for modelling and Java J2EE for the runtime and so I was looking for engines which are able to supply those languages: UML -> BPEL -> J2EE. So I found some insteresting articles: MagicDraw is going to support BPEL, jBPM announced an alpha release of a BPEL support and something about BPEL vs. Java writte by BEA and IBM.
But still open: the prototype. But I had some tries with jBPM - for my desperation not that successful as expected, but I will give it another try.
As we are planning and prototyping a new technology for web based business applications at form4, I am constantly looking for future proof components for not only the use case but the business case view.
So I started with a little research abount workflow engines like jBPM and ended up with BPEL and some articles about this language. Well, one interesting aspect is the business process perspective and a second is the independence of the implementation technology.
For some reasons we focus on MDA by using UML for modelling and Java J2EE for the runtime and so I was looking for engines which are able to supply those languages: UML -> BPEL -> J2EE. So I found some insteresting articles: MagicDraw is going to support BPEL, jBPM announced an alpha release of a BPEL support and something about BPEL vs. Java writte by BEA and IBM.
But still open: the prototype. But I had some tries with jBPM - for my desperation not that successful as expected, but I will give it another try.