BPEL (Business Process Execution Language) has become a technology of choice for business process orchestration. Companies have already invested a lot in BPEL and have a vision to expand and catch up with changing trend to integrate business processes. The service levels of these processes become crucial for business and for that you need a reliable BPEL infrastructure and other system components.

BPEL (Business Process Execution Language) is one of the new buzzwords thrown around with the same frequency as SOA (Service Oriented Architecture). Let us make an attempt to dismantle this jargon and try and understand the context and usage of this term.

‘Business Process Management with JBoss jBPM’ shows business analysts how to model business processes in JBoss jBPM and use these models to generate a fully-functioning workflow application. In this chapter from the book, author Matt Cumberlidge builds the end user part of the BPM system, a prototype user interface which proof-of-concept testers will use to interact with the process definition.

Oracle’s recent announcement that JDeveloper 10g will now be available free of cost, has sparked a lot of fresh interest in the IDE. In this interview we speak to someone who is in a great position to tell us more about JDeveloper and Oracle’s other products for the Java community.

In this interview, Roel Stalman states that JDeveloper won’t be moving to Eclipse or any other IDE platform. He also tells us what’s planned for JDeveloper and Oracle Application Development Framework, and shares his thoughts on topics like EJB 3.0, AJAX, BPEL and JSF.

In this interview, Debu Panda, the principal product manager for Oracle’s J2EE server talks about the various Oracle products for J2EE.

He discusses the challenges before J2EE and also shares his views on the ongoing JDO and EJB 3.0 persistence controversy.