Another suggestion for a PDC BOF session: Web services Orchestration: More than just getting the weather and checking your stocks
Christian Weyer, fellow Frankonian and web services orchestration guru, and myself submitted another suggestion for a BOF session at the PDC. Take a look at the abstract below and vote for it at: http://www.ineta.org/bof/Default.aspx if you're interested.
At first there was a cool Web service, and then another one, and then another one, and then … what? People started thinking about the bigger picture, not only the basics standards and specs that make Web services work. A picture of a world where service oriented enterprises execute business processes comprised of web services. Because it is the processes which make up an enterprise’s business! A key piece in this picture is the orchestration of Web services. An orchestration can compose new services from existing services or they can combine services to execute a business process.
This sounds pretty good – as long as it is easy to create an orchestration. The good news is: It is easy. You can build them using graphical drag-and-drop designers and then execute them through execution engines. The enabling standard to allow cross-vendor process design and execution is the Business Process Execution Language (BPEL), jointly proposed to an OASIS TC by Microsoft and IBM and other partners. The big players already announced BPEL compatible execution engines as part of BizTalk Server 2004 and WebLogic, WebSphere. Comparable implementations from smaller ISVs such as OpenStorm or Collaxa are already in the making.
Some of the topics we can discuss in this BOF session include:
• the foundation standards of Web service orchestration
• the enabling standards for orchestration
• gaps between the pile of WS-* standards and BPEL
• tool support today
• who is using it already
• how are orchestrations an enabler for Service Oriented Architectures?
• questions you have after the “BizTalk® Orchestration Engine Futures “ talk from the “Server Systems and Data“ track
• … make your choice!