Comparison of BPEL engines - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

This article is a comparison of BPEL and BPMN engines.

Product	Product Page	Vendor	Edition	Release Date	Framework	Compatibility	License
ActiveVOS ActiveVOS ActiveVOS is a business process management suite. Business processes are designed using the graphical BPMN 2.0 notation. The process engine implements the WS-BPEL 2.0 standard as well as BPEL4People for processes that require people to perform tasks from a task list....	http://www.activevos.com/products-features.php	Active Endpoints http://www.activevos.com/	8.0	September 2010	Servlet or Java EE	BPMN 2.0; WS-BPEL; BPEL4People / WS-HumanTask BPEL4People BPEL4People is the WS-BPEL Extension for People as proposed in a joint white paper by IBM and SAP in July 2005.- History :In June 2007, Active Endpoints, Adobe, BEA, IBM, Oracle, and SAP published the BPEL4People and WS-HumanTask specifications as a follow-up to the whitepaper, describing how human... ; standards	Proprietary
Apache ODE Apache ODE Apache ODE 'executes' or 'runs' one or more business processes which have been expressed in the Web Services Business Process Execution Language . It principally communicates with one or more Web services, sending and receiving messages, manipulating data and handling exceptions as defined by any...	http://ode.apache.org/ http://pxe.intalio.org/confluence/display/PXE/Home	ASF Apache Software Foundation The Apache Software Foundation is a non-profit corporation to support Apache software projects, including the Apache HTTP Server. The ASF was formed from the Apache Group and incorporated in Delaware, U.S., in June 1999.The Apache Software Foundation is a decentralized community of developers... (donated by Intalio)	1.3.4 1.0.164	9 June 2010 7 June 2006	Apache Axis Apache Axis Apache Axis is an open source, XML based Web service framework. It consists of a Java and a C++ implementation of the SOAP server, and various utilities and APIs for generating and deploying Web service applications. Using Apache Axis, developers can create interoperable, distributed computing... , JBI Java EE	BPEL4WS 1.1, WS-BPEL 2.0 ( WS-HumanTask BPEL4People BPEL4People is the WS-BPEL Extension for People as proposed in a joint white paper by IBM and SAP in July 2005.- History :In June 2007, Active Endpoints, Adobe, BEA, IBM, Oracle, and SAP published the BPEL4People and WS-HumanTask specifications as a follow-up to the whitepaper, describing how human... with Apache HISE )	Apache Apache License The Apache License is a copyfree free software license authored by the Apache Software Foundation . The Apache License requires preservation of the copyright notice and disclaimer....
BizTalk Server Microsoft BizTalk Server Microsoft BizTalk Server, often referred to as simply "BizTalk", is an Enterprise Service Bus. Through the use of "adapters" which are tailored to communicate with different software systems used in an enterprise, it enables companies to automate business processes...	http://www.microsoft.com/biztalk/default.mspx	Microsoft Microsoft Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...	Biztalk 2010	2010	.NET .NET Framework The .NET Framework is a software framework that runs primarily on Microsoft Windows. It includes a large library and supports several programming languages which allows language interoperability...	BPEL, BPMN, RFID, WSDL, UDDI, WS-*, ...	Proprietary
iBolt Server	http://www.magicsoftware.com/bin/en.jsp?enDisplay=view&enDispWhat=Zone&enDispWho=tech_t_idp&enZone=tech_t_idp&enPage=InnerPage	Magic Software Enterprises Magic Software Enterprises Magic Software Enterprises is an international software company ranked in the Software 500 by Software Magazine. International headquarters are in Or Yehuda, Israel while the North American headquarters are in Laguna Hills, California and the European main office is located in Houten,...			Java EE	BPEL4WS	Proprietary
jBPM JBPM jBPM is an open-source workflow engine written in Java that can execute business processes described in BPMN 2.0 . It is released under the ASL by the JBoss community.In essence jBPM takes graphical process descriptions as input...	http://www.jboss.org/jbossjbpm/jbpm_overview/	jBoss JBoss JBoss Application Server is an open-source Java EE-based application server. An important distinction for this class of software is that it not only implements a server that runs on Java, but it actually implements the Java EE part of Java...	3.3.1	12 January 2009	Java EE	WS-BPEL	LGPL
Open ESB Open ESB Open ESB is a Java based open source enterprise service bus. Open ESB can be used as a platform for both Enterprise Application Integration and SOA. Open ESB is built on open standards....	http://java.net/projects/open-esb	Oracle Corporation Oracle Corporation Oracle Corporation is an American multinational computer technology corporation that specializes in developing and marketing hardware systems and enterprise software products – particularly database management systems...	2.0	10 February 2009	Java EE, JBI	WS-BPEL 2.0	Open Source Open source The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology... , CDDL
Oracle BPEL Process Manager Oracle BPEL Process Manager Oracle BPEL Process Manager is a BPEL engine that is a member of the Oracle Fusion Middleware family of products. It enables enterprises to orchestrate disparate applications and Web services into business processes... (formerly Collaxa BPEL Orchestration Server)	http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/ias/bpel/index.html	Oracle Corporation Oracle Corporation Oracle Corporation is an American multinational computer technology corporation that specializes in developing and marketing hardware systems and enterprise software products – particularly database management systems...	11g	April 2010	Java EE	WS-BPEL 2.0, BPMN	Proprietary
OW2 Orchestra OW2 Orchestra OW2 Orchestra is a WS-BPEL compliant web services orchestration solution. It organizes web services calls following a process description written in the BPEL XML grammar...	http://orchestra.ow2.org/	OW2	4.6	28 October 2009	Apache Axis Apache Axis Apache Axis is an open source, XML based Web service framework. It consists of a Java and a C++ implementation of the SOAP server, and various utilities and APIs for generating and deploying Web service applications. Using Apache Axis, developers can create interoperable, distributed computing... Apache CXF Apache CXF Apache CXF is an open-source, fully featured Web services framework. It originated as the combination of two open-source projects: Celtix developed by IONA Technologies and XFire developed by a team hosted at Codehaus. These two projects were combined by people working together at the Apache... OSGi OSGi The Open Services Gateway initiative framework is a module system and service platform for the Java programming language that implements a complete and dynamic component model, something that does not exist in standalone Java/VM environments... Java EE	WS-BPEL 2.0	LGPL
Parasoft Parasoft Parasoft is an independent software vendor with headquarters in Monrovia, California. It was founded in 1987 by five graduates of the California Institute of Technology who had been working on Caltech Cosmic Cube.... BPEL Maestro	http://www.parasoft.com/jsp/products/bpel.jsp?itemId=114	Parasoft Parasoft Parasoft is an independent software vendor with headquarters in Monrovia, California. It was founded in 1987 by five graduates of the California Institute of Technology who had been working on Caltech Cosmic Cube....	5.0.1	25 February 2010	Servlet	WS-BPEL, BPEL4People / WS-HumanTask BPEL4People BPEL4People is the WS-BPEL Extension for People as proposed in a joint white paper by IBM and SAP in July 2005.- History :In June 2007, Active Endpoints, Adobe, BEA, IBM, Oracle, and SAP published the BPEL4People and WS-HumanTask specifications as a follow-up to the whitepaper, describing how human...	Proprietary
Petals BPEL Engine	http://easybpel.petalslink.com/ http://petals.ow2.org/download-jbi-components.html	Petals Link	1.0.1	08 December 2009	Java EE	WS-BPEL 2.0, WSDL Web Services Description Language The Web Services Description Language is an XML-based language that is used for describing the functionality offered by a Web service. A WSDL description of a web service provides a machine-readable description of how the service can be called, what parameters it expects and what data structures... 1.1 and 2.0	LGPL
SAP Exchange Infrastructure SAP Exchange Infrastructure SAP NetWeaver Process Integration is SAP's enterprise application integration software, a component of the NetWeaver product group used to facilitate the exchange of information among a company's internal software and systems and those of external parties. Before the current version, SAP PI was...	http://www.sap.com/platform/netweaver/components/xi/index.epx	SAP AG SAP AG SAP AG is a German software corporation that makes enterprise software to manage business operations and customer relations. Headquartered in Walldorf, Baden-Württemberg, with regional offices around the world, SAP is the market leader in enterprise application software...	3.0			BPEL	Proprietary
Virtuoso Universal Server Virtuoso Universal Server Virtuoso Universal Server is a middleware and database engine hybrid that combines the functionality of a traditional RDBMS, ORDBMS, virtual database, RDF, XML, free-text, web application server and file server functionality in a single system...	http://virtuoso.openlinksw.com/	OpenLink Software OpenLink Software Founded in 1992, OpenLink Software, Inc., is a software company headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts, USA.The company develops and deploys standards-compliant middleware products that cover:...	4.5	2006		UDDI, WS-BPEL, WS-*	GPL and Proprietary
WebSphere Process Server WebSphere Process Server WebSphere Process Server is the runtime engine for artifacts produced in a business-driven development process. Technically, WebSphere Process Server is mounted on top of WebSphere Application Server and extends the WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus...	http://www-306.ibm.com/software/integration/wps/	IBM IBM International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas...	6.0.1.3	29 September 2006	Java EE	WS-BPEL	Proprietary

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