I have used Eclipse BPEL designer fairly successfully with ode. Two minor
issues came out:

1) Eclipse BPEL designer creates <case/> conditional sections rather than
the <if/> sections supported by Ode - pretty easy to switch manually.

2) The assign editors in Eclipse BPEL do not work very well if you want to
do anything more complicated than direct assignment from one variable to
another. One particularly aggravating issue is that the editor has a habit
of duplicating <literal/> tags on the assign every time the model is saved.

These feel more like Eclipse bugs than anything to do with Ode - I'm sure
they will be ironed out in time. I have also tried the Netbeans BPEL
designer by with less success.

Mike.

On 6/29/07, Alex Boisvert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

AFAIK, the Eclipse BPEL Designer should work, provided that you a) write
your own deployment descriptor and b) package your process and deploy them
manually.   There may be some minor interoperability issues but I'm sure
we
can iron those out pretty quickly.   Any takers for writing a plugin to
package + deploy directly to Ode?

A free alternative is the Intalio Designer (http://bpms.intalio.com) that
uses the BPMN notation and generates BPEL + WSDL that's 100% compatible
with
Apache Ode.  It can package and deploy processes directly to Apache Ode
when
using the Axis2 IL.

alex


On 6/29/07, Manolo Gomez Lopez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I was writing the same question at the moment I received this message
;-)
>
> OK, apache ode seems to be a great product, I tried to write my own bpel
> processes and modifying my WSDL's to accomodate partnerlinktypes, but
I'm
> sure you will agree with me this is far from neither easy nor intuitive,
> lots of namespaces out there... ;-)
>
> I also tried to use Eclipse Bpel designer, but with little success,
seems
> to
> be still in early stages of development, and still it isn't intuitive
> enough.
>
> Do you use any graphical designer for writing your BPEL processes to be
> deployed on Apache ODE?
>
> Is there any tool out there wich generates BPEL files compatible with
> Apache
> ODE?
>
>
>
> 2007/6/29, Van Caesar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >
> > I need an environment to use ode, design .bpel and .wsdl, then compile
> it.
> >
> > I don't know if eclipse's bpel designer can do it. I download a bpel
> > designer, but I found that it's web service engine is Axis 1.3.
> >
> > So I want to know whether it is useful or not. And if ode has his own
> > compiled environment, it is better to have a graphic
> > developed  environment.
> > I think we can't write .bpel or .wsdl by handiwork. It is too
original.
> >
> > --
> > Van Caesar
> >
>

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