James, This sounds reasonable to me. Perhaps a starting point would be a set of BPEL 1.1/2.0 acceptance tests ( which have been mentioned in other threads )?
I am currently looking into a BPEL 2.0 parser for the Sybase engine. My plan was to migrate our current BPEL 1.1 tests to BPEL 2.0, however I think having a common set of BPEL acceptance tests in Ode would be a good idea. I have not had a chance to look through the PXE contribution for BPEL acceptance tests. What do folks think about merged BPEL acceptance tests as a starting point? Lance On 2/20/06, James Strachan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There seems to have been an assumption that there should only be one > orchestration/BPEL/workflow engine in the Ode project. So far I seem > to be MrNegative repeatedly doubting whether this assumption is valid > or useful so I just wanted to get feedback on peoples thoughts on > this specific issue, particularly from the Sybase/PXE folks. > > Here's my personal take: > > Right now today the Sybase code is geared more towards being a > generic orchestration/workflow engine that today supports BPEL 1.1 > and can support other orchestration/workflow languages and could be > ported to 2.0 without huge amounts of effort. PXE is specifically > geared towards BPEL 2.0 as its primary design which could well be a > good thing if you want a BPEL 2.0 engine - though I do find the PXE > code harder go grok - but maybe that's because its more BPEL 2.0 > specific. > > In summary they are both very different, solving things in different > ways - I see value in both codebases as they are today. I also see > areas they can collaborate (as PaulB mentioned recently). So we can > definitely have code reuse across the two engines. However I honestly > have no idea if we can ever merge the two codebases into one - the > experiment has some merit for sure but it could be too big a leap. > > Putting that ServiceMix hat on again; we certainly have a use case for > > * a general purpose orchestration engine that we can use from Java code > * BPEL 1.1 > * BPEL 2.0 > * any new XML language that comes out in the orchestration/workflow > space > > So both engines have immediate value to ServiceMix. > > Putting that Ode hat on again, my personal priorities on the ODE > project are are to get both engines working well in their new Apache > home, then looking to where we can reuse code & infrastructure across > the two. But unifying the code into one engine isn't on my personal > list of itches to scratch (and I've lots of itches :). I'm perfectly > happy for them to stay separate and let reuse happen iteratively over > time. > > Specifically to Sybase & PXE folks, what are your thoughts? > > James > ------- > http://radio.weblogs.com/0112098/ >
