BPEL's marriage with ESB/JBI and it's affair with BPM

Learn about the relation between two of the most important pieces of SOA infrastructure: a service orchestration engine (e.g. a BPEL component) and an Enterprise Service Bus (e.g. based on JBI). That is the stable marriage. As an introduction, we'll explore the ins and outs of BPEL, the upcoming standard for service orchestration. You'll get a good idea of the different components in a BPEL process along with the development and deployment environment. We'll show the natural link between BPEL and an ESB together with a good picture of how an application developers have to use the JBI infrastructure. The last section will give details on BPEL's affair with BPM and the nasty consequences that you better try to avoid.

Tom Baeyens BIO

Tom Baeyens is the founder and lead developer of JBoss jBPM, the leading open source workflow management system. He represents JBoss in the expert groups JSR207 "process definition for java" and JSR208 "java business integration". Tom is a frequent speaker on Java and BPM at international conferences and he's the author of the articles "Graph Oriented Programming" "The State of Workflow" and "Open source workflow and the BPM-market".

Related Links

• JBoss JBPM
• Sun's Service Oriented Bussiness Integration