[rules-users] Drools flow and BPEL (Drools 5.0.0.M5)
sarish
sarish.jain at gmail.com
Sun Apr 12 15:01:23 EDT 2009
Do you mean to say that JBPM-BPEL 1.1.1 does not support BPEL 2.0?
As per the home page of documentation, they say they are compliant with BPEL
2.0.
Mark Proctor wrote:
>
> Umesh Wankhede wrote:
>>
>>
>> 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.
> If you are going to choose a BPEL product, make sure you choose one that
> supports BPEL 2.0, or you'll be shooting yourself in the foot, Apache
> ODE is the more complete BPEL 2.0 engine.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>> Umesh
>>>>>>
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