Alexandre Alves currently works at BEA Systems, in the WebLogic Integration group. He has worked with integration technologies for over 10 years, focusing on CORBA, J2EE, and Web services.
BPEL4WS V1.1 is a public draft release of the "Business Process Execution
Language for Web Services" specification dated May 3, 2003. BPEL4WS V1.1 is
arguably the de facto standard for Business Process Management (BPM);
however, because it's a draft release, BPEL4WS V1.1 has several shortcomings
that will be addressed by the next release of the specification (named
WS-BPEL 2.0), which is targeted to be released either toward the end of this
year or during the beginning of 2006.
WS-BPEL 2.0, henceforth referenced as BPEL 2.0, is considerably different
from the previous V1.1 draft release. The article will address these changes
and demonstrate how to attempt to migrate a V1.1 business process to be
compatible with a BPEL 2.0 engine. Sometimes this migration is simple and c... (more)
Alexandre Alves currently works at BEA Systems, in the WebLogic Integration group. He has worked with integration technologies for over 10 years, focusing on CORBA, J2EE, and Web services.
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