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September 12th, 2006
BPEL 2.0, the long-awaited love-child of the OASIS WS-BPEL TC, is at last in its final public comment phase. See John Evdemon’s blog for all the links. Sure, conventional wisdom says two years is a long time to change Switch to If-then, but if Assaf’s comments are correct, fixing BPEL 1.1’s primitive data manipulation syntax may prove to be a far more significant change. Once the thing is finally approved we can anticipate a ripple effect on BPMSes, and a round of new questions. Will Microsoft actually support it? (Unlikely.) Will there be an actual spec submitted for BPEL4People and BPEL-Subprocess? (Probably, but will anyone but IBM and SAP care?) Will BPMN have to change to support the new BPEL? (Bigger problems than that confront BPMN.) Once BPEL 2.0 is approved by a vote in OASIS, I think it has 6 months to prove it was worth waiting for. If it can’t do it, I think the energy on standardization moves to the modeling language (BPMN?) and the execution language becomes an implementation detail.
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2 Comments Add your own
1. James Taylor | September 13th, 2006 at 4:37 am
So what’s the scoop with rules in BPEL?
2. bruce | September 14th, 2006 at 8:41 am
BPEL doesn’t deal with rules at all, as far as I know. Unless you call IF (expression)… [do this block of activities] a “rule.”
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