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Interesting perspective from Randy Heffner (Forrester) in the latest issue of Redmond Magazine: Perhaps Randy is unaware of our work on XML , SOAP and the Web Services Workshops that led to the WS-* specifications . The quote above seems to be inspired
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The 2007 Microsoft SOA & Business Process Conference will be held from October 29th through November 2nd, 2007 at the Microsoft Conference Center on the Microsoft Campus in Redmond, WA. Customers and partners can learn about Microsoft’s current and
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The book I previewed here a few weeks back is now available in both PDF and XPS formats. Enjoy!
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The WS-BPEL TC has its last conference call next week. It's taken over three years of effort but the spec and schemas are finally done . A non-normative Primer and FAQ are also available. (The final version of the Primer will be published after our last
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Apparently over 3,000 people have downloaded the BPEL Community Technology Preview (CTP) for Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) . Now it's your turn to tell us what you love or hate about the implementation. To do this you'll need to sign up for a Windows
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The article is fairly favorable and provides a fairly quick overview of the BPEL 2.0 spec. Here's some of what's new in BPEL 2.0: New activity types if-then-else replaces BPEL4WS 1.1 “switch” repeatUntil Validate forEach with completion conditions extensionActivity
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The first Community Technology Preview of BPEL for Windows Workflow Foundation is now available: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=6d0daf00-f689-4e61-88e6-cbe6f668e6a3&displaylang=en The CTP supports BPEL 1.1. A later release
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These are sponsored by OASIS, not Microsoft: WS-BPEL is central for defining SOA business processes. Members of the OASIS WS-BPEL Technical Committee will present this free webinar that will help business analysts and managers to better understand the
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If you haven't already heard about it , Microsoft will soon be releasing a BPEL 1.1 activity library for Windows Workflow Foundation (WF). The activities will enable you to build workflows that can be losslessly exported to BPEL 1.1. Also included is
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Here's a quick reminder that the last call for comments on the WS-BPEL 2.0 spec is rapidaly approaching (November 9th). The WS-BPEL 2.0 spec it is available in PDF , DOC and XHTML formats. A RDDL document is also available that includes links to all relevant
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The apparent backlash (if you can call it that) against WS-BPEL 2.0 has begun. I knew things were going to get interesting when I heard Dave Linthicum's SOA Podcast mention BPEL getting " hammered " by both the press and the blogosphere. There are a variety
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The WS-BPEL 2.0 Specification entered Public Review on 10 September 2006. Public Review for WS-BPEL 2.0 ends 09 November 2006. Comments may be submitted to the TC by any person through the use of the OASIS TC Comment Facility at http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/comments/index.php?wg_abbrev=wsbpel
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I just posted the RDDL for the OASIS BPEL 2.0 spec. Does anyone have a RDDL validator? I haven't been able to find one. If you are new to RDDL you can learn more about it at here .
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Good news and bad news: Good News: The BPEL TC approved going to Public Review yesterday so look for an announcement soon. Bad News: One of the new requirements for OASIS Standardization is an XHTML version of the spec. I was testing different ways to
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I never thought I'd see this day happen. The world-famous BPEL Issues List is 100% closed with no open issues (the list hadn't yet been updated at the time I posted this blog entry). At this rate we should be ready for Public Review by the end of the
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