Hi Gene,
> Can Witango be thought of as a
> BPEL language
No.
> or and I just thinking wishfully?
Yes.
The synopsis babble may sound like they're similar, but functionally the
only similarity is that both BPEL and Witango use XML. That's like comparing
a chair and a table as being the same thing just because they're both made
of wood.
BPEL is just another proposed XML vocabulary to describe the process of
workflow and other automation functions pertaining to certain types of
"business" data. The reason it exists at all is simply to help some big
application platforms communicate certain requirements between different
vendors (akin to the reason why we have the SOAP standard).
If you have to interoperate with those big boy vendors like IBM, Oracle or
Micosoft for a specific purpose, then you'll probably have to implement BPEL
- otherwise, just roll-your-own XML definition, it'll be cheaper and more
lightweight.
Hope that helps.
Scott Cadillac
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> -Original Message-
> From: Wolf, Gene [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 5:14 AM
> To: witango-talk@witango.com
> Subject: Witango-Talk: Witango and BPEL
>
>OK, some of you folks are steeped in the theoretical aspect of
> programming. You're up to speed on the latest and greatest. I'd like your
> feedback. We are now moving towards something called BPEL (Business
> Process Execution Language) Here's a short excerpt from the wikipedia
> website (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BPEL
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BPEL> ) concerning BPEL:
>
> "is a business process modeling
> language that is executable. The origins of BPEL can be traced to WSFL
> and XLANG
> . It is serialized in XML and
> aims to enable programming in the large
> . The concepts of programming in
> the large and programming in the small
> distinguish between two aspects
> of writing the type of long-running asynchronous processes that one
> typically sees in business processes ."
>
> This sounds an awful lot like Witango to me. In reading the entire section
> it seems to be describing Witango. I'd like to get your take on it and see
> what the Witango community thinks of this.
>
>
> Gene Wolf
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