是否有任何BPEL工具使用RESTful Web服务而不是Big Web Services

Question

I have found some tools that provide graphical tools to build business process using BPEL. But does BPEL mean that the produced business processes will be based on SOAP only? OR BPEL in general can produce either SOAP or RESTful web services and not only SOAP, and this depends on the tool that is used to build business processes?

Answer 1

I have used Netbeans IDE to orchestrate web-services: which are mixture of both SOAP based and RESTful services. I mean some services were SOAP based the others were RESTful, which were orchestrated to achieve one come goal.

To stick to your question, In general BPEL do support both of them.

BPEL is an orchestration language, it specifies executable process and controls sequence of their message exchange and execution. Remember that the services (wether SOAP based or RESTful) are external to BPEL and only treated as input to the BPEL process.

As long as I know, NetBeans is a good IDE for BPEL and its GUI design makes it simple.

My recommendation is to get this IDE and start enjoying it: GlassFishESBv22 (it is NetBeans with Glass Fish server).

Answer 2

There's an extension of the BPEL language known as BPEL for REST supported by a tool called JOpera . It's available as a plugin for Eclipse. It hasn't received much recognition though, an it doesn't make for a natural programming model, when it comes to RESTful Web Services. It still feels like an RPC-oriented solution.

You can also check out Apache ODE . Last time I checked, they offered support for a thing called WSDL 1.1 Extension for REST in the beta version of Apache ODE 2.0.