Business Process

• Microsoft XLANG - Web Services for Business Process Design

• IBM WSFL - Web Services Flow Language

BPEL4WS - Business Process Execution Language for Web Services (successor of XLANG and WSFL)

• About
  • Presentation by Tinghe Wang and Pierre-Alain Doffoel
  • Some more analysis by Brent Sleeper
  • WPEL4WS Samples
  • BPEL Learning Guide
  • Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) Resource Guide
  • Using BPEL
  • Introduction and References (from Cover Pages @ Oasis)

• Core
  • Specification Version 1.1 (05 May 2003)
  • SAP: http://ifr.sap.com/bpel4ws/
  • Business Process with BPEL4WS: Understanding BPEL4WS, Part 1 - Concepts in business processes
  • Business Process with BPEL4WS: Learning BPEL4WS, Part 2 - Creating a simple process
  • Automating business processes and transactions in Web services
  • Business processes in a Web services world
  • Workflow-based applications
  • Web services and business process management
  • BPEL Concepts & Metamodel

• ebXML - Electronic Business XML
  • http://www.ebxml.org/
  • An Introduction to ebXML - Collaborative Electronic Business is here to stay
  • Part II – ebXML and Web Services - The Way to Do Business
  • http://www.webservicesarchitect.com/content/articles/irani03.asp
  • Electronic Procurement beyond borders
    http://www.openxchange.org/
  • Swedish ebXML interest group

• XPDL

Workflow & Co.

• Tikiwiki & GalaxiaWorkflow^? (OpenFlow^?)
• OpenWFE^?
• http://www.e-workflow.org/
• Workflow Management Research Group (WFM-RG):
  http://forge.gridforum.org/projects/wfm-rg

Organizations

• Oasis - Advancing E-Business Standards Since 1993
• The Workflow Management Coalition
• BPMI - Business Process Management Initiative
• OASIS Forms Web Services Business Process Execution Language (WSBPEL) Technical Committee

Companies

• Pikos - Solutions for BPM (PIKOS BPEL Modeler & Co.)
• CapeScience
• Cape Clear
• Völcker Informatik AG

Keywords / Buzzwords

  Universal Data Access (UDA)
  Enterprise Application Integration (EAI)
  Enterprise Information Integration (EII)
  Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
  Process Oriented Architecture (POA)
  Event Driven Architecture (EDA)
  Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)
  Information Technology Infrastructure Library™ (ITIL)

Collaboration

• TWiki
• TikiWiki

EAI

• http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/E/EAI.html
• TWiki & EAI
• CMS, DMS

Software / Implementations

• IBM release BPWS4J - Business Process Execution Language for Web Services JavaTM^? Run Time (BPWS4J)
  http://www.webservices.org/index.php/article/articleview/588/1/11/
  http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/bpws4j

• Virtuoso Universal Server

• Cape Clear's SOA Editor

• Apache Axis C++ 1.1 Released
  http://www.webservices.org/index.php/article/articlestatic/1307/1/84/
  http://ws.apache.org/axis/cpp/index.html

• IBM - WebSphere^? Business Integration Server Foundation (WBISF)
  http://www.webservices.org/index.php/article/articleview/1424/1/69/
  http://www-306.ibm.com/software/integration/wbisf/features/

• Open ebXML Project

• ebXML IMPLEMENTATIONS

• ILOG JRules 4.6
  http://www.ilog.com/products/jrules/
  http://www.ilog.com/products/brstudio/

Misc Pointers / More Topics

• Syndication: The Emerging Model for Business in the Internet Era
• SOA and Web services
• Web Services Orchestration
• XMethods
• RemoteMethods.com
• HR-XML Consortium