The idea and motivation behind almost each new technology and platform for enterprise application development is to provide an environment where better business applications can be developed with less ...

BPEL (Business Process Execution Language) is an XML-based, special purpose language that many hope will provide a standard way for specifying and building sharable business processes. We could, of ...

In a recent post at his InfoWorld blog, Dave Linthicum said "the dirty little secret is that BPEL 1.1 never really worked as advertised, and the amount of custom and proprietary extensions required ...

Oracle Corp. last week unveiled what it called "the industry's first and most complete" Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) platform. Based on technology acquired with its recent purchase of Collaxa ...

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Some time ago I wrote about the issues with the new 2.0 version of BPEL, namely backward capability. Many of those issues, according to people using the technology, came true. The movement to 2.0 was ...