I am interested in the area of Service Oriented Architecture. I read Thomas Erl’s “Service Orient Architecture” and am working my way through “Web Services Platform Architecture”(Weerawarana,...).
I find it a rather daunting area and I am hoping to get to a point soon where I read something and come away with more answers than questions. I wanted an open source tool to experiment with BPEL (Business Process Execution Language).
The open source tool available is called ActiveBPEL which can be downloaded from http://www.active-endpoints.com. All I have done so far is set up the software and run the demonstration BPEL Orchestration.
Software I used to get things running:
Java 1.5
Ant 1.6.5
Tomcat 5.5.20
ActiveBPEL 3.0.0
The ActiveBPEL version I downloaded did not have the loan approval orchestration tutorial that I believe other versions came with. The loan_approval.zip can be downloaded from http://www.cis.umassd.edu/~hxu/Projects/UMD/BPEL4WS/ and I did deploy it and run the client code that interacted with it.
This is as far as I have went with it. My goal in the immediate future is to create my own BPEL orchestrations with my own web services to move more seriously into SOA.
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You can also download a BPEL authoring tool called the ActiveBPEL Designer from http://www.active-endpoints.com/active-bpel-designer.htm. ActiveBPEL Designer is hands-down the best tool available for building BPEL orchestrations, and it's free.
Hopt this helps.
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