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

[Mark Proctor]

Umesh Wankhede wrote:
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> 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?
If you are going to use BPEL I would recommend ODE, jBPM BPEL is not 
BPEL 2.0, but 1.0, which is very limited. ODE is likely to be the BPEL 
engine we integrated into Drools.

More importantly though, have a good think on why it is you are using 
BPEL, as in reality it's generally too low level for end users to use 
effectively.
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>>> Thanks
>>> Umesh
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