JBoss exerting SOA with BPEL and ESB

To improve its position in the SOA arena, JBoss is preparing to transform its JBPM products into support for BPEL1.1 and BPEL2.0. At the same time, the

The Open-source software vendor released its own beta version of the ESB product this week.

JBPM is a powerful platform that applies to workflows, business process management, and process mix. Pierre Fricke, JBoss's product director, said:

"SOA itself expresses the architecture of business process integration and external service publishing, so BPM is very important for SOA

Ring. "Pierre Fricke said:" The support of JPDL jbpm has been very popular, the last year, jbpm download volume has been doubled 3 times times. Right now

JBPM has 20,000 downloads a month. "(Hongsoft JPDL is jbpm workflow process definition Language)
Pierre Fricke added: "Before jbpm, Java technicians wanted to develop workflow applications and BPM applications, and they had to buy non-

Often expensive 3rd party package. "

JBPM will implement BPEL1.1 in September, and then BPEL2.0 will be implemented. (Hongsoft: jbpm-bpel1.1 's beta version has already been released)

BEPL2.0 is now in the draft stage of Oasis and is about to become a formal standard. Pierre Fricke said: "This standard is about to be finalized,

It will significantly improve the architecture of the application system. "JBoss is participating in the development of the BPEL standard for Oasis. Pierre Fricke said: "Bpel will change

Be more flexible and scalable. "

"For JBoss, adding BPEL support and ESB implementation is critical," said Shawn Willett, analyst at << Analysis >>. Him in a

E-Mail wrote: This is important to support SOA. Only one application server is far from enough. (Hongsoft

This is the JBoss server. Shawn Willett that JBoss needs to provide an infrastructure for enterprise-class applications, in which JBoss has lagged behind other open-source vendors, such as Apache Serivemix, Sun will also open up its own ESB products. The current BPM engine does not provide BPEL support, so JBoss needs to move faster.

JBoss's ESB product (Hongsoft JBOSSESB 4.0 Beta1) has released a beta version, and the official edition will be released later this year

。 As the "superglue" in the SOA system, the ESB can consolidate services and processes. JBoss's ESB products can be used to

Http://labs.jboss.com/portal/jbossesb/downloads download.