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 2.0 specifications.
- 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
