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BPEL: Assembling Web Services into Complex Business Processes

BPEL (Business Process Execution Language) is an XML-based modeling language designed to describe business processes consisting of Web services interactions and to define how they can be connected to accomplish specific tasks. The business process execution language describes business process interfaces in WSDL, so that they can be easily integrated into other processes or applications. BPEL can create a sequence of Web service interactions, correlate messages and process instances, and specify recovery in cases of failures and exceptional conditions.

While the business process execution language is the most widely accepted standard for service orchestration, it provides no means to integrate or communicate with the web services it orchestrates. It requires an orchestration engine to act as the intelligent intermediary between services. For the business process improvement tools that support an SOA infrastructure, industry leaders worldwide are turning to Progress Software and its technology partners.

Progress Sonic BPEL Server: Orchestrating Web Services across a Distributed Environment

Progress® Sonic™ BPEL Server™ is an orchestration engine that leverages many powerful Progress® Sonic ESB® (enterprise service bus) features to develop and manage sophisticated service orchestrations. Sonic's full WS-BPEL 2.0 implementation provides rich support for service orchestration, including process composition, real-time event correlation, complex control flow, and management of long-running processes.

What's more, the Sonic ESB distributed SOA architecture combines BPEL orchestration, independently scalable integration, intelligent routing, and a robust enterprise messaging backbone. The result simplifies connection of endpoints in a distributed environment—across clusters, domains, and firewalls—and scales to meet high throughput requirements.

In addition, with Sonic, developers can use one environment, the Eclipsed-based Sonic Workbench, for developing, testing, and debugging distributed BPEL orchestrations as well as ESB intelligent routing and SOA integration services - with minimal programming. Easy-to-use wizards simplify the creation of BPEL process activities and the Sonic BPEL process editor leverages knowledge of WSDL interfaces to intelligently fill in BPEL process implementation details.

Getting the Full Benefit of Business Process Execution Language Orchestration

The integration of Sonic ESB and Sonic BPEL Server provides the best of both worlds. Using these two powerful technologies, our customers can:

Leverage the reliability, flexibility, and reach of the Sonic ESB to meet large-scale enterprise integration requirements
Perform service composition and event correlation with minimal programming, improving developer productivity
More easily develop, test, and deploy any combination of business process execution language, intelligent routing, and intelligent services

As a result, with enterprises can easily reuse Web services and quickly create new, complex, enterprise-wide business processes to meet changing needs.

Realize the Full Power of Service-Oriented Architecture

What's more, the integration of the Sonic BPEL Server and the Sonic ESB delivers the full power of service-oriented architecture. With that innovative combination, it:

Allows for the automation of sophisticated BPEL orchestrations that execute in complex distributed environments, to meet large-scale integration requirements.
Improves developers productivity in development, testing, and debugging.
Enables the easy reuse of Web services and rapid creation of new business processes to meet changing needs.

In addition to Progress Software solutions for SOA and enterprise application integration, we also provide software for enterprise messaging, semantic data integration and web services management. We also provide a business application platform for event processing and business activity monitoring.

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Progress Software Corporation supplies business application platform, soa infrastructure and data infrastructure software that simplifies and accelerates the development, deployment, integration and management of business applications and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). Our superior business application platforms include Progress OpenEdge for high performance SOA integration and software as a service (SaaS), and Progress Apama for complex event processing. Our innovative event-driven SOA infrastructure solutions include Progress Sonic Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), Progress DataXtend semantic data integration, Progress Actional SOA management and SOA governance, and DataDirect data connectivity for mainframe SOA and web services. Our data infrastructure products include DataDirect Connect for database driver and data provider connections to relational databases and XML data integration, EasyAsk for enterprise search and e-commerce, and ObjectStore object data management.