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:
Executable business processes model actual behavior of a participant in a business interaction.
Business protocols, in contrast, use process descriptions that specify the mutually visible message exchange behavior of each of the parties involved in the protocol, without revealing their internal behavior. The process descriptions for business protocols are called abstract processes.
BPEL is used to model the behavior of both executable and abstract processes.
The scope includes:
Sequencing of process activities, especially Web Service interactions
Correlation of messages and process instances
Recovery behavior in case of failures and exceptional conditions
Bilateral Web Service based relationships between process roles
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WebSphere Business Integration Primer: Process Server, BPEL, SCA, and SOA (The developerWorks Series) by Ashok Iyengar, Vinod Jessani, Michele Chilanti Average Customer Review: based on 2 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...
BPEL Cookbook: Best Practices for SOA-based integration and composite applications development by Jeremy Bolie, Michael Cardella, Stany Blanvalet, Matjaz Juric, Sean Carey, Praveen Chandran, Yves Coene, Kevin Geminiuc, Markus Zirn, Harish Gaur Average Customer Review: 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 by Matjaz, B Juric Average Customer Review: 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...
Web Services Platform Architecture: SOAP, WSDL, WS-Policy, WS-Addressing, WS-BPEL, WS-Reliable Messaging, and More by Sanjiva Weerawarana, Francisco Curbera, Frank Leymann, Tony Storey, Donald F. Ferguson Average Customer Review: based on 7 reviews. 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....