Comments on: Oracle Developer Day in Austin: SOA, BPEL, and XML DLSs http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2006/05/10/oracle-developer-day-in-austin-soa-bpel-and-xml-dlss/ One foot in the muck, the other in utopia Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:57:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Paul R Brown http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2006/05/10/oracle-developer-day-in-austin-soa-bpel-and-xml-dlss/#comment-191 Paul R Brown Tue, 30 May 2006 19:38:59 +0000 http://www.redmonk.com/cote/wp/?p=117#comment-191 From one perspective, I would say that the open source world has come to the table on BPEL already — there are several open source BPEL projects, with multiple "commercial quality" implementations (e.g., Intalio|BPMS and ActiveEndpoints) available for download and a collaborative project under incubation at Apache ("ODE"). That said, just like alternate languages for the JVM, it will be interesting to see what people come up with in terms of tools for working with high-level artifacts (e.g., BPMN or an event-condition-action specficiation) that compile to BPEL, management capabilities, adjuncts (e.g., BPEL4People), and even alternative syntaxes (e.g., non-XML) for the base language. That is, one way to look at BPEL is as a good-enough concurrent, XML message-oriented language for writing some kinds of software, and it's now all about the tooling. From one perspective, I would say that the open source world has come to the table on BPEL already — there are several open source BPEL projects, with multiple “commercial quality” implementations (e.g., Intalio|BPMS and ActiveEndpoints) available for download and a collaborative project under incubation at Apache (”ODE”).

That said, just like alternate languages for the JVM, it will be interesting to see what people come up with in terms of tools for working with high-level artifacts (e.g., BPMN or an event-condition-action specficiation) that compile to BPEL, management capabilities, adjuncts (e.g., BPEL4People), and even alternative syntaxes (e.g., non-XML) for the base language. That is, one way to look at BPEL is as a good-enough concurrent, XML message-oriented language for writing some kinds of software, and it’s now all about the tooling.

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