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Iridium Satellite Collision in Space
You might have seen the recent news reports about the collision between U.S. and Russian communication satellites. The U.S. satellite was one of the Iridium satellites. What wasn’t reported and you probably don’t know is that an object database management system (ODBMS) is an important part of the Iridium system. Even though ODBMSs are a [...]
February 13, 2009
(The Acronym) SOA is (Perhaps) Dead (at Some Companies); Long Live Services
I am now also posting on the Cutter Blog. My initial posting is (The Acronym) SOA is (Perhaps) Dead (at Some Companies); Long Live Services. It is a response to Anne Thomas Manes’ SOA is Dead; Long Live Services on her blog at the Burton Group.
January 9, 2009
Atomicity
The typical definition of an atomic task or process is one that cannot be decomposed further. This is vague and subject to interpretation. The Decomposition Matrix on this site uses a specific definition: A task (for business process diagrams) or a process (for data flow diagrams) is atomic if every input relates to every output [...]
December 3, 2008
Well-Formed Business Process Diagrams
My last posting referenced the criteria for a well-formed business process diagram mentioned in Business Process Driven SOA using BPMN and BPEL by Matjaz B. Juric and Kapil Pant. I am going to expand on their criteria to create a more comprehensive definition of a well-formed business process diagram. To start, here are three criteria from [...]
November 18, 2008
Recent Business Process Modeling Books
I recently received two new books on business process modeling. Both books looked interesting because they had great titles. As it turns out, one book is great and the other not so good. The not so good book is Business Process Driven SOA using BPMN and BPEL by Matjaz B. Juric and Kapil Pant. There are [...]
October 9, 2008
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Business Process Execution Language (BPEL)1  defines a notation for specifying business process behavior based on Web Services. Business processes can be described in two ways:

BPEL is used to model the behavior of both executable and abstract processes. The scope includes:

Organization: OASIS

More information: BPEL page on the OASIS website (new window)

1Formerly Business Process Execution Language for Web Services (BPEL4WS)

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Business Process Driven SOA using BPMN and BPEL: From Business Process Modeling to Orchestration and Service Oriented Architecture
Business Process Driven SOA using BPMN and BPEL: From Business Process Modeling to Orchestration and Service Oriented Architecture
by Kapil Pant, Matjaz Juric
Average Customer Review: 4 stars based on 1 review.
Customer Review: A brief background on my credentials - I'm with Interway , a company that provides software products to companies to help with their SOA needs (among other things). Business Process Driven SOA using BPMN and BPEL (http://interway.sk/en/technologies/service-oriented-architecture-soa/resource-center/business-process-driven-soa-using-bpm...
WebSphere Business Integration Primer: Process Server, BPEL, SCA, and SOA (The developerWorks Series)
WebSphere Business Integration Primer: Process Server, BPEL, SCA, and SOA (The developerWorks Series)
by Ashok Iyengar, Vinod Jessani, Michele Chilanti
Average Customer Review: 2.5 stars based on 3 reviews.
Customer Review: I liked the book and would've given it 4 stars except that in trying to learn how to implement the concepts and examples I became frustrated. The authors did a good job with putting the chapters together and presenting the information. The book order example is intruguing but incomplete. No where is there reference or links to downlo...
Web Services Platform Architecture: SOAP, WSDL, WS-Policy, WS-Addressing, WS-BPEL, WS-Reliable Messaging, and More
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Customer Review: What do you get when you put a number of Web Services gurus from IBM in a room for a while? You'll get the "Web Services Platform Architecture" book. In short, all the authors that assisted in writing this book are Web services experts from IBM who have either wrote the specs or assisted in writing the Web services specs in question....
BPEL Cookbook: Best Practices for SOA-based integration and composite applications development: Ten practical real-world case studies combining business ... management and web services orchestration
BPEL Cookbook: Best Practices for SOA-based integration and composite applications development: Ten practical real-world case studies combining business ... management and web services orchestration
by Jeremy Bolie, Michael Cardella, Stany Blanvalet, Matjaz Juric, Sean Carey, Praveen Chandran, Yves Coene, Kevin Geminiuc, Markus Zirn, Harish Gaur
Average Customer Review: 4 stars based on 6 reviews.
Customer Review: Many of our clients are migrating from traditional Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) to the standard based SOA. This book has ten real-world case studies, which helped me to architect the solutions. Sometimes I use this book as best practices of Oracle BPEL-PM . I like this book because the approach is more real-life examples ...
Business Process Execution Language for Web Services BPEL and BPEL4WS 2nd Edition
Business Process Execution Language for Web Services BPEL and BPEL4WS 2nd Edition
by Poornachandra Sarang, Matjaz Juric, Benny Mathew
Average Customer Review: 4 stars based on 9 reviews.
Customer Review: There have been an entire bowl of alphabet soup regarding various kinds of distributed processing systems. All of them, in their time, achieved a certain level of usage. None of them has done much to change the basic way we do business communications. That may be changing. The development of the internet from a little system to excha...
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