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Active Endpoints Ships First Open-Source System to Include People in Composite Applications

New BPEL4People and WS-Human Task specifications to eliminate proprietary workflow, speed delivery of services-based applications

Product Information: ActiveBPEL Enterprise Data Sheet

ActiveBPEL™ Enterprise is the premier solution for deploying, running and managing applications based on the BPEL standard, designed from the ground up with a modular, extensible architecture...

Product Information: ActiveBPEL Designer Data Sheet

ActiveBPEL™ Designer is an integrated environment for rapidly building, testing and deploying applications based on the BPEL standard...

The R.O.I. of Composite Applications

SOA and composite applications hold out the promise for ease of use and lower training costs, lower cost of deployment, faster time to market, improved business requirement matching and better multi-channel deployment.
Learn more in this white paper.

Featured Content provided by Active Endpoints
Time to balance WS-* and REST

REST is particularly suitable for very large networks with huge numbers of clients and servers and where it is convenient to model all operations as reads and writes directed to individual URIs. As for WS-*, its sweet spot lies in systems bigger than those that use distributed objects, and whose networks are further flung, slower, less reliable, and possibly divided between different administrative domains.


ActiveBPEL Open Source Engine

The ActiveBPEL™ engine is a robust runtime environment that is capable of executing process definitions created for the Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) standard.

The ActiveBPEL engine technology is developed and maintained by Active Endpoints, which also uses the same technology in its commercial products. Active Endpoints created the ActiveBPEL open source project based on the belief that the open source model is an effective means through which to foster community interest, education and development around the BPEL standard.

Key benefits of using ActiveBPEL engine technology include:

  • Completeness.
    The ActiveBPEL engine comprehensively implements both the BPEL4WS 1.1 specification and the WSBPEL 2.0 standard. The engine supports the full complement of BPEL activities, event handling, exception handling and scope/compensation management.

  • Industrial Strength.
    In addition to comprehensive BPEL support, the ActiveBPEL engine includes high-end features like deployment packaging, process persistence, event notifications and console APIs.

  • Growth Track.
    As a distributor of commercial products based on the ActiveBPEL engine, Active Endpoints is committed to the ongoing development of ActiveBPEL technologies. The ActiveBPEL open source project will continually benefit from the contributions of both Active Endpoints and the ActiveBPEL community at large.

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