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InfoWorld Reviews Latest BPEL Tools from IBM and Oracle

In InfoWorld: Oracle and IBM move BPEL to the BPI forefront, James Borck installs, uses, and reviews (with comparison scoring) the latest business process integration tools from these vendors. IBM's is very closely integrated into Websphere Application Server while Oracle's BPEL-PM will work on top of any J2EE app server (like BEA's Weblogic?). There's lots more information, but here's the summary,

"Both products still have room to grow with regard to improving usability and mitigating complexity. This is an evolving science, to be sure. Yet many of these shortcomings stem from the complexity of XML and the still-ripening state of BPEL more than the underdeveloped status of these products. "

I think that these are going to be products used by folks that already have the integrated parts in their environment, not the driver (yet) for putting those parts in your technical architecture.

Posted by outlawv at September 1, 2004 10:49 AM