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WS-BPEL 2.0 for SOA Composite Applications with Oracle SOA Suite 11g

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WS-BPEL 2.0 for SOA Composite Applications with Oracle SOA Suite 11g

This book is a comprehensive guide that shows developers how to design and develop business processes in BPEL efficiently. Throughout the book, the authors discuss important concepts and show real-world examples covering Oracle SOA Suite 11g and related products. This book is aimed at SOA architects and developers involved in the design, implementation, and integration of composite applications and end-to-end business processes. The book provides comprehensive coverage of WS-BPEL 2.0 for impleme

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Active Endpoints Announces Support for WS-BPEL 2.0 with New ActiveBPEL 3.0

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Shelton, CT

Active Endpoints, Inc. (www.active-endpoints.com), the leading provider of SOA orchestration products and services, today announced the availability of ActiveBPEL 3.0. The ActiveBPEL product family includes open source and commercial SOA orchestration solutions that are standards-compliant and platform-neutral, forming the foundation for fast, cost-effective business and systems integration. Among other important capabilities, ActiveBPEL 3.0 comprehensively supports the forthcoming WS-BPEL 2.0 standard, which will be officially published early in 2007.

 

ActiveBPEL 3.0 allows SOA application developers and ISVs to leverage the power of the BPEL 2.0 standard while preserving prior investments in BPEL 1.1 processes. ActiveBPEL 3.0’s pluggable architecture complements all SOA IT infrastructures and offers an independent, best-in-class solution for building, testing, deploying and managing BPEL-based applications.

 

“We are very pleased to see commercial support for the forthcoming WSBPEL 2.0 standard in the new versions of ActiveBPEL Designer and ActiveBPEL Enterprise,” said Derek Mathieson, Principal Architect, Workflow and e-Business Applications, CERN. “By allowing us to automatically migrate BPEL 1.1 processes to 2.0 using ActiveBPEL Designer, and by supporting seamless side-by-side execution of BPEL 1.1 and 2.0 processes in ActiveBPEL Enterprise, Active Endpoints is providing CERN all the flexibility we need to transition to the 2.0 standard on our own terms.”

 

Enterprise developers and systems integrators use ActiveBPEL to significantly reduce the time and complexity of implementing SOA applications, from proof of concept to deployment. A large and growing group of businesses now use ActiveBPEL in demanding environments across financial services, government, telecommunications, and other industries. ActiveBPEL is also the embedded, best-in-class BPEL solution for many leading software providers who look to Active Endpoints for competitive advantages when including BPEL in their own products.

 

In response to input from hundreds of customers and partners, ActiveBPEL 3.0 offers new capabilities including:

 

Support for all WS-BPEL 2.0 process constructs and semantics

Automatic migration of BPEL4WS 1.1 processes to the new WS-BPEL 2.0 standard, preserving users’ investments in existing 1.1 processes

Seamless, side-by-side execution of BPEL4WS 1.1 and WS-BPEL 2.0 processes, allowing phased migration to WS-BPEL 2.0

Enhanced message routing based on WS-Addressing to streamline and improve the execution of long running processes

Policy-driven message exchanges based on WS-ReliableMessaging

BPEL Sub-process execution, allowing process components to be executed within the lifecycle of their invoking processes

“The forthcoming WS-BPEL 2.0 standard represents a critical inflection point for SOA,” said Fred Holahan, Active Endpoints’ chairman and co-founder. “For the first time, organizations have a broadly adopted foundation upon which to create composite, process-driven SOA applications. In addition to comprehensively supporting the WS-BPEL 2.0 standard, ActiveBPEL 3.0 delivers the advanced capabilities our customers and partners need to power their enterprise-class SOA applications.”

 

The ActiveBPEL 3.0 product suite includes the following:

 

ActiveBPEL Engine: a commercial-grade, open source runtime environment for executing BPEL processes. The ActiveBPEL engine is the most widely used BPEL technology available today, delivering commercial-grade BPEL capabilities to the open source community.

ActiveBPEL Designer: a high-powered, Eclipse Ready™ design environment that allows information analysts to visually create and test BPEL process flows. The ActiveBPEL Designer includes many advanced features, speeding developers through the tasks of building sophisticated composite applications.

ActiveBPEL Enterprise servers: enterprise-class BPEL servers that satisfy a multitude of BPEL deployment requirements – from mobile and desktop applications to advanced departmental and enterprise-wide production environments, including:

o ActiveBPEL Enterprise for Apache Tomcat

o ActiveBPEL Enterprise for JBoss® Application Server

 

o ActiveBPEL Enterprise for IBM® WebSphere® Application Server

 

o ActiveBPEL Enterprise for BEA WebLogic® Server

 

o ActiveBPEL Enterprise for the Microsoft® .NET Framework (available in January 2007)

 

ActiveBPEL Designer allows users to create and test BPEL processes, and then deploy those processes to ActiveBPEL Enterprise servers that scale from desktop to data center and meet the most rigorous performance demands.

 

Active Endpoints also offers BPEL Fundamentals training updated to reflect the WS-BPEL 2.0 standard. Access to extensive online and self-help BPEL and SOA-related resources is available at Active Endpoints’ web site www.active-endpoints.com.

 

Availability

 

The ActiveBPEL 3.0 engine is available for immediate download at www.active-endpoints.com/ga3. The ActiveBPEL 3.0 Designer is freely available for immediate download at www.active-endpoints.com/ga3. For general information or to purchase ActiveBPEL Enterprise Server products, contact Active Endpoints at +1.203.929.9400 ext. 709, or by sending an email to info @ active-endpoints.com.

 

About Active Endpoints, Inc.

 

Active Endpoints is the leading provider of SOA orchestration solutions. Active Endpoints’ solutions enable organizations to build and deploy composite, process-driven information systems based on BPEL, the SOA orchestration standard. From open source to mission critical deployments, Active Endpoints empowers IT organizations to quickly adapt to evolving customer demands – reducing the cost of integration, leveraging infrastructure investments, and enabling the sharing of business processes with customers, partners, and suppliers. More financial services, government, telecommunications, high technology, and retail organizations use Active Endpoints’ solutions than any other BPEL technology. Headquartered in Shelton, Connecticut, Active Endpoints is privately held. More information is available at www.active-endpoints.com.

 

ActiveBPEL is a trademark of Active Endpoints, Inc. Eclipse and Eclipse Ready are trademarks of Eclipse Foundation, Inc. JBoss is a registered trademark of JBoss, Inc. IBM and WebSphere are registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation in the United States, other countries, or both. BEA and BEA WebLogic Server are registered trademarks of BEA Systems, Inc. Microsoft is either a registered trademark or trademark of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. All other company and product names are the property of their respective owners.

 

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Web Services Platform Architecture: SOAP, WSDL, WS-Policy, WS-Addressing, WS-BPEL, WS-Reliable Messaging, and More

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“Other books claim to present the complete Web services platform architecture, but this is the first one I’ve seen that really does. The authors have been intimately involved in the creation of the architecture. Who better to write this book?” –Anne Thomas Manes, Vice President and Research Director, Burton Group “This is a very important book, providing a lot of technical detail and background that very few (if any) other books will be able to provide. The list of authors includes some of the top experts in the various specifications covered, and they have done an excellent job explaining the background motivation for and pertinent details of each specification. The benefit of their perspectives and collective expertise alone make the book worth reading.” –Eric Newcomer, CTO, IONA Technologies “Most Web services books barely cover the basics, but this book informs practitioners of the “real-world” Web services aspects that they need to know to build real applications. The authors are well-known technical leaders in the Web services community and they helped write the Web services specifications covered in this book.Anyone who wants to do serious Web services development should read this book. ” –Steve Vinoski, Chief Engineer, Product Innovation, IONA Technologies “There aren’t many books that are as ambitious as this one is. The most notable distinguishing factor of this book is that the authors have tried to pair down the specifications for the user and rather than focusing on competing specifications, they focus on complementary ones. Nearly every chapter provides a business justification and need for each feature discussed in the Web services stack. I would recommend this book to developers, integrators, and architects.” –Daniel Edgar, Systems Architect, Portland General Electric “Rarely does a project arrive with such a list of qualified and talented authors. The subject matter is timely and significant to the industry.” –Eric Newcomer, author of Understanding SOA with Web Services and Understanding Web Services and Chief Technology officer, IONA The Insider’s Guide to Building Breakthrough Services with Today’sNew Web Services Platform Using today’s new Web services platform, you can build services that are secure, reliable, efficient at handling transactions, and well suited to your evolving service-oriented architecture. What’s more, you can do all that without compromising the simplicity or interoperability that made Web services so attractive. Now, for the first time, the experts who helped define and architect this platform show you exactly how to make the most of it. Unlike other books, Web Services Platform Architecture covers the entire platform. The authors illuminate every specification that’s ready for practical use, covering messaging, metadata, security, discovery, quality of service, business-process modeling, and more. Drawing on realistic examples and case studies, they present a powerfully coherent view of how all these specifications fit together–and how to combine them to solve real-world problems.* Service orientation: Clarifying the business and technical value propositions * Web services messaging framework: Using SOAP and WS-Addressing to deliver Web services messages * WSDL: Documenting messages and supporting diverse message interactions * WS-Policy: Building services that specify their requirements and capabilities, and how to interface with them * UDDI: Aggregating metadata and making it easily available * WS-MetadataExchange: Bootstrapping efficient, customized communication between Web services * WS-Reliable Messaging: Ensuring message delivery across unreliable networks * Transactions: Defining reliable interactions with WS-Coordination, WS-AtomicTransaction, and WS-BusinessActivity * Security: Understanding the roles of WS-Security, WS-Trust, WS-SecureConversation, and WS-Federation * BPEL: Modeling and executing business processes as service compositions Web Services Platform Architecture gives you an insider’s view of the platform that will change the way you deliver applications. Whether you’re an architect, developer, technical manager, or consultant, you’ll find it indispensable.Sanjiva Weerawarana, research staff member for the component systems group at IBM Research, helps define and coordinate IBM’s Web services technical strategy and activities. A member of the Apache Software Foundation, he contributed to many specifications including the SOAP 1.1 and WSDL 1.1 specifications and built their first implementations. Francisco Curbera, IBM research staff member and component systems group manager, coauthored BPEL4WS, WS-Addressing, and other specifications. He represents IBM on the BPEL and Web Services Addressing working groups. Frank Leymann directs the Institute of Architecture of Application Systems at the University of Stuttgart. As an IBM distinguished engineer, he helped architect IBM’s middleware stack and define IBM’s On Demand Computing strategy. IBM Fellow Tony Storey has helped lead the development of many of IBM’s middleware, Web services, and grid computing products. IBM Fellow Donald F. Ferguson is chief architect and technical lead for IBM Software Group, and chairs IBM’s SWG Architecture Board. A(c) Copyright Pearson Education. All rights reserved.

Web Services Platform Architecture: SOAP, WSDL, WS-Policy, WS-Addressing, WS-BPEL, WS-Reliable Messaging, and More

SOA and WS-BPEL: Composing Service-Oriented Architecture Solutions with PHP and Open-Source ActiveBPEL

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Composing Service-Oriented Architecture Solutions with PHP and Open-Source ActiveBPEL

  • Build Web Services with PHP
  • Combine PHP Web Services into orchestrations with WS-BPEL
  • Use better WS-BPEL to enable parallel processing and asynchronous communication
  • Simplify WS-BPEL development with free graphical tool ActiveBPEL Designer

In Detail

When utilized within a Service-oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services are part of a business process determining the logical order of service activities – logical units of work performed by one or more services. Today, the most popular tool for organizing service activities into business processes is Web Services Business Process Execution Language (WS-BPEL), a language defining an execution format for business processes operating on Web Services. While it is not a trivial task to define a business process definition with WS-BPEL from scratch, using a graphical WS-BPEL tool can significantly simplify this process.

Examples and practice are much more valuable than theory when it comes to building applications using specific development tools. Unlike many other books on SOA in the market, this book is not focused on architecture. Instead, through numerous examples, it discusses practical aspects of SOA and WS-BPEL development, showing you how to apply architecture in practice with the help of PHP, ActiveBPEL open-source engine, and ActiveBPEL Designer – powerful development tools available for free.

What you will learn from this book?

  • Install and configure the software components required to build PHP Web Services and then combine them into WS-BPEL solutions
  • Use PHP as the underlying technology for creating building blocks for SOAs
  • Build data-centric services based on MySQL or Oracle Database XE
  • Secure services built with PHP SOAP extension
  • Combine fine-grained services built with PHP into coarse-grained ones with WS-BPEL
  • Deploy WS-BPEL process services to ActiveBPEL open-source engine
  • Simplify WS-BPEL development with ActiveBPEL Designer
  • Implement asynchronous interactions between WS-BPEL processes

Approach

With the help of many examples, the book explains how to build Web Services with PHP, combine them into SOAs with WS-BPEL, and then deploy composite WS-BPEL-based solutions to the ActiveBPEL engine. The examples in this book are presented in a way that anyone can understand and apply.

Who this book is written for?

This book is suitable for anyone who wants to start building SOA applications using powerful tools available free of charge. It also will be useful for PHP developers willing to move towards Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA).

Readers need only a basic knowledge of SOA, BPEL, and Web Services; even a total beginner will be able to follow the examples, provided the required software components are installed on his or her computer. More experienced readers might use this book as a reference, focusing only on the chapters of interest.

SOA and WS-BPEL: Composing Service-Oriented Architecture Solutions with PHP and Open-Source ActiveBPEL