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| Active Endpoints Releases the ActiveBPEL 2.0 Product Family Active Endpoints, Inc. has announced plans to consolidate its ActiveWebflow and ActiveBPEL products under the ActiveBPEL brand. The Company also announced general availability of ActiveBPEL 2.0, a comprehensive family of open source and commercial products for building, testing, deploying and managing composite, service-oriented applications. Previously, Active Endpoints distributed its open source product under the name ActiveBPEL and its commercial products under the ActiveWebflow brand. Effective immediately, all open source and commercial products are consolidated under the ActiveBPEL brand. The result of this change is a single, unified brand across the Company's products - from the ActiveBPEL open source engine to the ActiveBPEL Designer to ActiveBPEL Enterprise Servers for Apache Tomcat, JBoss Application Server, IBM WebSphere Application Server, and BEA WebLogic Server. The ActiveBPEL 2.0 product family now consists of the following: o ActiveBPEL Designer: an Eclipse Ready design environment that allows information analysts to visually create and test BPEL process flows. The ActiveBPEL Designer includes a multitude of advanced features, speeding developers through the tasks of building sophisticated composite applications. o ActiveBPEL engine: an open source runtime environment for executing BPEL compositions. The ActiveBPEL engine is the most widely used BPEL technology available today, delivering commercial-grade BPEL capabilities to the growing open source community. o ActiveBPEL Enterprise Servers: Enterprise-class BPEL servers that satisfy a multitude of BPEL deployment requirements - from mobile and desktop applications to advanced production environments, including: - ActiveBPEL Enterprise for Apache Tomcat - ActiveBPEL Enterprise for JBoss Application Server - ActiveBPEL Enterprise for IBM WebSphere Application Server - ActiveBPEL Enterprise for BEA WebLogic Server The ActiveBPEL 2.0 feature set now includes the following new capabilities: o WSBPEL 2.0 Constructs. ActiveBPEL 2.0 delivers two critical constructs that are defined in the forthcoming WSBPEL 2.0 standard - For Each and Message Exchange. o Additional Orchestration Features. ActiveBPEL 2.0 delivers extended orchestration constructs to Break, Continue and Suspend processing execution. o Pluggable Expression Language Support. To support the widest variety of data manipulation and scripting needs, ActiveBPEL 2.0 now supports XPath, XQuery and JavaScript for advanced data manipulation, mapping and transformation. o Advanced Process Exception Management. BPEL's fault handling conventions sometimes raise unintended process terminations. ActiveBPEL 2.0 allows uncaught faults to be trapped and handled declaratively, covering a much broader range of exception handling than previously available. o Expanded Endpoint Location Services. ActiveBPEL 2.0 now supports a variety of techniques for locating Partner Link endpoints. In addition to WSDL Service addresses, new locator services are available based on WS-Addressing conventions and URN mapping techniques. o WS-Policy Support. ActiveBPEL 2.0 now supports key WS-Policy assertions, including Endpoint Retry, WS-Security and MyRole SOAP header mapping. o Extensive Console Upgrades. ActiveBPEL management consoles now support advanced querying and filtering of process data, diagrammatic views of process states and advanced console navigation. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Computing News :: home page |