Business Process Execution Language for Web Services BPEL and BPEL4WS 2nd Edition [Paperback]

Poornachandra Sarang (Author), Matjaz Juric (Author), Benny Mathew (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 9, 2006

This book is a comprehensive and practical guide to the design, development, usage, and syntax of Business Process Execution Language (BPEL). BPEL is explained in detail, code snippets and complete examples are used to show how business processes are specified. Two major BPEL servers, the Oracle BPEL Process Manager and Microsoft BizTalk Server, are covered in detail, and an overview of other major BPEL servers is provided. This book is aimed at architects and developers in the design, implementation, and integration phases of advanced information systems and e-business solutions, developing business processes and dealing with the issues of composition, orchestration, transactions, coordination, and security. The book presumes knowledge of XML and web services, web services development (either on J2EE or .NET), and multi-tier architecture.

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About the Author

Matjaz B. Juric holds a Ph.D. in computer and information science. He is Associate Professor at the University of Maribor. In addition to this book, he has coauthored Professional J2EE EAI, Professional EJB, J2EE Design Patterns Applied, and the .NET Serialization Handbook, published by Wrox Press. He has published chapters in More Java Gems (Cambridge University Press) and in Technology Supporting Business Solutions (Nova Science Publishers). He has also published in journals and magazines, such as Java Developer's Journal, Java Report, Java World, Web Services Journal, eai Journal, theserverside.com, OTN, ACM journals, and presented at conferences such as OOPSLA, Java Development, XML Europe, OOW, SCI, and others. He is a reviewer, program committee member, and conference organizer. Matjaz has been involved in several large-scale object technology projects. In cooperation with IBM Java Technology Centre, he worked on performance analysis and optimization of RMI-IIOP, an integral part of the Java platform. Matjaz is author of courses and consultant for the BPEL and SOA consulting company BPELmentor.com. For more information, please visit http://www.bpelmentor.com.

Product Details

• Paperback: 372 pages
• Publisher: Packt Publishing; 2nd edition (January 9, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1904811817
• ISBN-13: 978-1904811817
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,153,173 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Could be a great book, May 30, 2007

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Vinicius C. Carvalho (Belo Horizonte Brazil) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Business Process Execution Language for Web Services BPEL and BPEL4WS 2nd Edition (Paperback)

This is a good book for those seeking an initial view of process and BPEL. The book covers the basics of BPEL profile 1.1, and until chapter 4 is a good resource of information. I don't like books that binds the technology to an specific implementation, and that's the case of the book after chapter 4, it binds examples to Oracle BPEL process servers (which I've already used in production and find it a poor implementation) and Microsoft Biz Talk (never used it). It would be much better if more real world examples could be provided instead of specific providers mechanisms for deploying, creating etc. This should be a readers choice, and the product manuals take care of that. I'm a great fan of the author, have read many of his books, this one had everything to be on my top shell, but, if only there was no more chapters after the 4th.

Just my 2 cents.

2 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars BPEL just may be the future of business data communications, March 28, 2006

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John Matlock "Gunny" (Winnemucca, NV) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Business Process Execution Language for Web Services BPEL and BPEL4WS 2nd Edition (Paperback)

There have been an entire bowl of alphabet soup regarding various kinds of distributed processing systems. All of them, in their time, achieved a certain level of usage. None of them has done much to change the basic way we do business communications. That may be changing.

The development of the internet from a little system to exchange technical papers to a worldwide set of sites, all speaking internet protocol, have generated the expansion of broadband services all across the world from New York City to small towns in the third world. The basic ability of an individual to seek information has subsequently been expanded with XML so that information can be exchanged between computers of different types with different operating systems easily and without having to understand the characteristics of the computer at the other end. XML is a very open standard and it has some weaknesses. Enter BPEL to establish a set of standards, some common ways of doing things, and a generally more organized approach.

BPEL servers have been developed by, and there are URLs to: Oracle, Microsoft, IBM, BEA, Sun and at least four open-source implementations.

While this is a beginners book in so far as BPEL is concerned, it is presumed that the reader has some experience with XML, web services, and some kind of web services developent system such as J2EE or .NET.