Resources & Services

Tutorials

• Developing, Deploying and Running a Hello World BPEL Process with the Eclipse BPEL Designer and Apache ODE: A click-by-click Instruction
• BPEL mit Apache ODE und dem Eclipse BPEL-Designer unter Eclipse 3.4 (Ganymede) entwickeln (german)
• Installation von Apache ODE in Eclipse 3.4 (Ganymede) (german)
• Hello-World-BPEL-Prozess mit Apache ODE in Eclipse 3.4 (Ganymede) (german)
• BPEL-Prozess mit einfachem Invoke auf Apache ODE in Eclipse 3.4 (Ganymede) (german)
• ODE/BPELUnit Tutorial: Unit Testing BPEL processes with Test Coverage - Part I
• ODE/BPELUnit Tutorial: Unit Testing BPEL processes with Test Coverage - Part II

Projects using ODE

• Apache ServiceMix: Agile open-source ESB (JBI Container)
• Apache Tuscany: SCA based component aggregation framework.
• Intalio BPMS: a full open source BPMS solution including a BPMN designer, runtime components and tooling.
• SUPER: Integrated EU research project, aiming to raise BPM to the business level, where it belongs, from the IT level where it mostly resides now.
• GASwerk: pre-packaged SOA, JMS and Spring stacks based on the Geronimo application server.
• JBoss RiftSaw: Apache ODE optimized for the JBoss Application Server container.
• TouK ODEO: Apache ODE tuned for Apache ServiceMix

Useful Tools

• Apache Axis2: Web service stack
• SoapUI: Free and open source desktop application for inspecting, invoking, developing, simulating/mocking and functional/load/compliance testing of web services.
• Eclipse BPEL designer.
• ObjectWeb Lomboz(TM) is built on top of the Eclipse BPEL designer and offers additional options like an embedded server and easy deployment (see http://lomboz.objectweb.org/bpel_demo.html for a demo)

Articles

• SOA auf die leichte Art (german)
• An Introduction to Apache ODE
• Develop and execute WS-BPEL V2.0 business processes using the Eclipse BPEL plug-in
• Execute business processes with Eclipse and Apache ODE
• Open Source BPEL Orchestra (german) - Part 1, Part 2, Part 3

Important specifications

• BPEL4WS 1.1 (pdf) and WS-BPEL 2.0specifications.
• WSDL 1.1
• XPath 1.0 and XPath 2.0
• ECMAScript for XML (E4X) Specification (can be used in BPEL extensions)

Professional Services

Here is a list of companies providing professional services around Apache ODE. This includes consulting, support, training, products (sorted in alphabetical order):

• TouK, Warsaw, Poland -- Consulting, Apache ServiceMix Integration