Paul, it will need a bit time until all vendors will be WS-BPEL 2.0 compliant. But as far as I see, the vendors in the TC are on the path to implement the standard to become compliant. Then, you will be able to "port" your workflows between vendor environments. In fact, we experimented portability a few months ago and have been positively surprised even on BPEL 1.1 basis.
But take a look at SQL: It is a very well established standard, but porting SQL applications from e.g. Oracle to DB2 is not for free. This is basically because the different engines behave a little bit differently. I don't suspect that you will call SQL "useless" because of this... Frank ----- Ursprüngliche Mail ---- Von: Paul Downey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> An: [email protected] Gesendet: Montag, den 15. Januar 2007, 10:37:06 Uhr Betreff: Re: AW: [service-orientated-architecture] Re: Forrester Create a Long Acronym On 13 Jan 2007, at 23:16, Frank Leymann wrote: > what do you mean by "standard in name only"? The public review of > BPEL in OASIS is nearly over and it can expected that BPEL is a "de > jure" standard soon - although having a "de facto" standard meant > already significant progress in this space. Yes,it'll have the OASIS stamp, but will I be able to use it to interchange, port and interoperate my workflows between different implementations. I think not. -- http://blog. whatfettle. com ___________________________________________________________ Telefonate ohne weitere Kosten vom PC zum PC: http://messenger.yahoo.de
