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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Bill Burke
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