Chapter Thirteen. BPEL4WS and Application Integration
We are clearly moving toward standards within the world of application integration, both at the information (e.g., XML) and services (e.g., Web services) layers. However, the notion of standards-based process integration, despite a few attempts such as WFMC (discussed in previous books), has not been as well accepted.
With the appearance of Business Process Execution Language for Web Services (BPEL4WS), a derivative of Web services, we have yet another attempt to provide a standard mechanism to define, execute, and share processes. BPEL4WS seems to have more momentum than earlier specifications, with adoptions by most major application integration technology vendors as well as enterprise ...
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