PUBLIC MARKS from Regis with tag soa

Business process management system offered as a software as a service (saas).

Clients often want to build only an ESB, because that involves a technology challenge without the need for messy business requirements. Building just an ESB becomes an IT field of dreams, where IT builds an ESB and then hopes some SOA will come along and use it. Such an ESB-oriented architecture loses the benefits of SOA. It doesn't create business value. In fact, it incurs cost without reaping immediate benefit. And it doesn't align IT and the business. The better alternative to ESB-oriented architecture is SOA. Don't build an ESB by itself; build it as part of an SOA, preferably one that fits the SOA Foundation architecture that IBM recommends.

An excellent white paper by Sun that descibes how to manage services in an entreprise.

A selection of articles in the entreprise software factory. Reminds of TheServerSide in the early days.

Eclipse SOA platform

Open Source BPEL Server ActiveBPEL, LLC is an open source software organization that licenses and distributes the ActiveBPEL™ engine technology. The ActiveBPEL engine is a robust runtime environment that is capable of executing process definitions created to the Business Process Execution Language for Web Services (BPEL4WS, or just BPEL) 1.1 specifications.