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Business Process Execution Language in Brief

Sun, 30 Oct 2005 05:21:20 GMT

A Clear and concise overview of what BPEL is, how it works and its importance and benefits.
Source: IT-Director.com
Rating: Three Stars (out of Four)

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A BPEL Primer

Sat, 15 Oct 2005 14:34:04 GMT

Excerpts from a primer addressing the questions: What is BPEL? What is it Good For? How does it work? What does it look like?
Source: The Patricia Seybold Group
Rating: Four Stars (out of Four)

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Build Your Business Apps With BPEL

Sat, 15 Oct 2005 02:36:11 GMT

''Examine a collection of commercial and open source tools to support the full lifecycle of BPEL development." This informative article uses real-world problems to illustrate the use of BPEL.
Source: Enterprise Architect
Rating: Four Stars (out of Four)

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Business Process Execution Language for Web Services - BPEL4WS: The Promise of Portable Business Processes

Sat, 15 Oct 2005 02:09:37 GMT

A practical overview of BPEL directed at programmers. Includes discussion of 'how to process activities in sequence or in parallel, program using a structured or graph based paradigm, store and manipulate XML values in containers, define and nest scopes. define, throw and catch faults, define and invoke compensation handlers, use web services as sub-routines and send and receive messages.'
Source: BEA Systems

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BPEL Standardizes Process Management

Sat, 15 Oct 2005 02:07:25 GMT

A short, topical discussion of progress in the development of BPEL, as at April 2005, including an overview of BPEL's limitations as well as its benefits.
Source: Network World

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Using the Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) to Integrate Business Processes

Thu, 13 Oct 2005 04:44:41 GMT

An excellent non-technical primer explaining in layman's terms exactly what BPEL is, how it works, and how it can be used to improve business processes.
Source: Pittsburgh Technology Council

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The Enterprise: Business Process Management Languages, Part 1: BPEL

Wed, 12 Oct 2005 02:46:10 GMT

Concise but comprehensive description of BPEL, with list of sample activity constructs and a travel industry example in graphical form
Source: DM Review

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BPEL - Quickstudy

Mon, 10 Oct 2005 14:56:04 GMT

A helpful, concise overview of BPEL and how it works in practice, a little technical in parts but not too difficult for the layman to follow. Contains an insurance industry example which helps to clarify the more technical aspects of the discussion.
Source: Computerworld

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Bleepin' BPELs

Mon, 10 Oct 2005 03:43:39 GMT

Somewhat controversial 2003 article on the role of the big Web services players in engineering the development of BPEL as the accepted industry standard."

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New BPELSource Section: Opinions On BPEL

Mon, 10 Oct 2005 03:38:59 GMT

Analysts, journalists, vendors and users weigh in BPEL's place in the process orchestration and integration landscape

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A Hands-on Introduction to BPEL, Part 2: Advanced BPEL

Mon, 10 Oct 2005 03:02:53 GMT

Part two of this impressive tutorial that provides examples of how to design and implement BPEL processes. An article directed at the IT specialist rather than the general reader, which provides sample programming language for building a BPEL process.
Source: Matjaz B. Juric

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