Minimal BPEL/BPMN requirement?
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5039313
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I'm new to BPEL/BPMN.
Is it possible to write a BPEL/BPMN aware software without WS-* web services and EJB Container such as jBoss, WebLogic, Glassfish?
I want to know if there are quickstart tutorials on creating BPEL/BPMN programs with Maven and Eclipse.
And, do open engines like Apache ODE and jBPM provide WYSIWYG workflow designer to end users behind browser?
Solution
BPEL itself is depending on WS-, so if you want to use standard BPEL, you cannot avoid Web Services. BPMN 2.0 however provides an abstraction, which means you can use BPMN with WS-, Java or whatever you want as long as your engine supports that. Activiti for instance is bad in WS-* but quite good when you want to embed it into your Java app.
The Eclipse BPEL designer has a deployment descriptor editor and deployer for Apache ODE and JBoss Riftsaw, the latter is basically ODE with some JBoss foo.
OTHER TIPS
you can no doubt create clients that connect to a BPEL engine yet don't run within an application server. They will however need WS-* because that's the mechanism to communicate with BPEL processes.
For tutorials, see the websites of the various vendors of BPEL related tools and servers. jBoss I think has a plugin for Eclipse to provide a workflow editor, I don't know about Apache.
