[rules-users] Drools flow and BPEL (Drools 5.0.0.M5)

Umesh Wankhede umesh.wankhede at arisglobal.co.in
Fri Mar 6 01:20:33 EST 2009



Mark Proctor wrote:
> Umesh Wankhede wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I am trying to evaluate various features (rules and workflow) of 
>> Drools 5.0. What I understand from docs (drools-docs-flow.pdf - page 
>> 5) is that the Drools flow engine is based on generic process engine 
>> that allows the execution of different process languages like 
>> RuleFlow, BPEL, OSWorkflow, etc. Although I am able to do PoC (Proof 
>> of Concept) with RuleFlow, there isn't any documentation/samples 
>> available for using BPEL as process language. Also I don't find any 
>> more information on blogs, etc.
>> If anyone has done something similar, please let me know, or any 
>> pointers would help.
> There is no BPEL product, Drools COULD do BPEL, but we haven't made it 
> do so yet. It is more likely we would look to integrate an existing 
> BPEL product like ODE, as the execution engine is the easy bit, it's 
> all the xml manipulations that are time consuming.
So that means I would have to go with jBPM for BPEL support (and losing 
the advantage of tight rule engine integration provided in Drools). How 
far would be the BPEL support in Drools in the roadmap?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Umesh
>>
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