Now I'd have thought we were talking about 1! If you were talking
about 2 then I can see the disconnect.
Mark.
On 22 Mar 2007, at 21:39, Bill Burke wrote:
Tom Fennelly wrote:
> Are we talking about 2 things here:
> 1. Service Orchestration. Higher level - sitting above bus and
> interfacing to it via SOAP, JMS etc (message unaware). In this
> case, being able to mix and match different process management
> tools is important (jpdl, bpel etc).
> 2. Bus Level Orchestration. Lower level - sitting inside the
> bus. Here you orchestrate message routing (CBR etc),
> transformation,
> auditing etc. In this case, perhaps it's not so important to be
> able to plug and play different process models. This is perhaps
> where jBPM and ESB Actions cross paths??
Thanks for clarifying Tom. I've been talking about #2. Although I
think jBPM would be a very interesting option for #1, you wouldn't
be an ESB if you couldn't plug in #1. Maybe that's where Mark and
I have been disconnecting?
Bill
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