BPEL Learning Guide

This SearchSOA.com learning guide introduces you to Business Process Execution Language for Web services, or BPEL4WS. In this BPEL learning guide, you'll find articles, tips, expert advice, white papers and more that will explain how BPEL fits into the world of Web services.

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BPEL Quick Start

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• Glossary definition: BPEL4WS (SearchSOA.com)
• Glossary definition: WS-Coordination (SearchSOA.com)
• Glossary definition: WS-Transaction (SearchSOA.com)
• Topics page: BPEL (SearchSOA.com)

Articles and White Papers

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• Article:BPEL for free(TheServerSide.com)
• Article:BPEL: Web Services orchestration, hands-on with ActiveBPEL(SearchSOA.com)
• Article:BPEL not for the people?(ZDNet)
• Q&A Interview:BEA's Carges addresses BPEL, JBI and SOA, Part two(SearchSOA.com)
• Q&A Interview:BEA's Carges addresses BPEL, JBI and SOA(SearchSOA.com)
• Article:What's a BPEL?(ZDNet)
• Article:New open source ESB features JBI, BPEL support(TheServerSide.com)
• Article:New Tivoli BPEL tracking tool almost ready (InternetNews.com)
• Article:Java.net Article on Separation of Concerns and BPEL(Java.net)
• Article: The definitive BPEL and Java article (TheServerSide.com)
• Summary: BPEL bridges gap between business and Web services (SearchSOA.com)
• Article: JBoss adds open source BPM engine to its offerings(SearchSOA.com)
• White Papers: White Papers on Business Process Management (newsfactor.com)
• White Papers: BPM and SOA: Better Together (SearchSOA.com)
• White Papers: WS-BPEL Extension for People (IBM.com)
• White Papers: WS-BPEL 2.0 Extensions for Sub-Processes (IBM.com)
• Webcast: The Evolution of the ESB: The Inclusion of Native, Integrated BPEL-based Orchestration (SearchSOA.com)

BPEL Servers and Tools

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• Web Services Business Process Execution Language Draft Version 2.0
• ActiveBPEL Engine
• Oracle BPEL Process Manager
• ActiveBPEL Enterprise for JBoss
• Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006
• ActiveBPEL Enterprise for Apache Tomcat
• ActiveBPEL Designer
• WS-BPEL 1.1 Specification hosted by IBM
• ActiveBPEL Enterprise for IBM WebSphere
• ActiveBPEL Enterprise for BEA WebLogic
• ActiveBPEL Enterprise for Microsoft .NET Framework

BPEL Blogs

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• BPEL Radio
• Loosely Coupled Thinking
• BPEL Bits

BPEL References

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• Book: Business Process Execution Language for Web Services (Packt Publishing)
• Resource: BPEL and BPELJ (dev2dev)
• Resource: BPEL Reference (Openlink Virtuoso)

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