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

[Mauricio Salatino]

Mark, the ODE integration is one of the projects that Kris suggest to me..
if you want i can take a look at that.. Let me know or talk with Kris about
that.. may be I can start working on it..

On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 4:16 AM, Umesh Wankhede <
umesh.wankhede at arisglobal.co.in> wrote:

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> Mark Proctor wrote:
>
>> Umesh Wankhede wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
> The primary language would be RuleFlow or jPDL, but we are also looking at
> BPEL support (product requirements driven). So we have to make a choice
> between  jBPM or Drools 5.0. The latter option looks more suitable for our
> requirement which provides tightly integrated rule support, but lack of BPEL
> support currently is  making the decision tougher.
>
>
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>> Umesh
>>>>>
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