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Where does the Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) fit in?

April 26, 2017application design application development Application server assembly language BPEL Business execution fit Language process

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Where does the Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) fit in?

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FERGUSON: The BPEL standard plays into both Web services and business integration. We have a choreography engine — WebSphere Process Choreographer — that runs in WebSphere Application Server (WAS) Enterprise Edition and lets you build workflow processes that choreograph different types of Web services. That’s probably the most popular feature of the WAS Enterprise Edition. We’re doing the necessary work so the underlying language we support for specifying the process uses BPEL. This work is one of the major platform directions. In addition to supporting workflow, it also promises simplified application development. We’re trying to build a tool that will give developers simple flow charting skills and let them build a new Web service from existing ones, using BPEL as the underlying execution language. Now that we have an industry standard mechanism for assembling and choreographing calls to Web services, we’re also in the process of building tooling that will simplify the path for dev