BPEL Cookbook: Best Practices for SOA-based integration and composite applications development (Paperback)

Description

Service Oriented Architecture is generating a buzz across the whole IT industry. Propelled by standards-based technologies like XML, Web Services, and SOAP, SOA is quickly moving from pilot projects to mainstream applications critical to business operations. One of the key standards accelerating the adoption of SOA is Business Process Execution Language for Web Services (BPEL).

BPEL was created to enable effective composition of web services in a service-oriented environment. In the past two years, BPEL has become the most significant standard to elevate the visibility of SOA from IT to business level. BPEL is not only commoditizing the integration market, but it is also offering organizations a whole new level of agility – ability to rapidly change applications in response to the changing business landscape. BPEL enables organizations to automate their business processes by orchestrating services within and across the firewall. It forces organizations to think in terms of services. Existing functionality is exposed as services. New applications are composed using services. Communication with external vendors and partners is through services. Services are reused across different applications. Services are, or should be, everywhere!

描述

服務導向架構（Service Oriented Architecture，SOA）在整個IT行業中引起了轟動。在XML、Web服務和SOAP等基於標準的技術的推動下，SOA正迅速從試點項目發展為對業務運營至關重要的主流應用程序。加速SOA採用的關鍵標準之一是用於Web服務的業務流程執行語言（BPEL）。

BPEL的創建旨在實現在服務導向環境中有效組合Web服務。在過去的兩年中，BPEL已成為將SOA的可見性從IT提升到業務層面的最重要標準。BPEL不僅使集成市場成為商品化，還為組織提供了全新的敏捷性水平-能夠快速根據不斷變化的業務環境變化來更改應用程序。BPEL使組織能夠通過在防火牆內外協調服務來自動化其業務流程。它迫使組織以服務為思維方式。現有功能被公開為服務。使用服務來組合新應用程序。與外部供應商和合作夥伴的通信是通過服務進行的。服務在不同應用程序之間被重複使用。服務無處不在！