Hi Uday, For one - ActiveBPEL is GPL. ODE will be under:
http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/ODExSITE/Licensing (ODE Team - is the above link still valid?)
From my experience, while ActiveBPEL is a perfectly usable engine - you
generally end up wanting to buy a commercial version as this gives you the following: http://www.active-endpoints.com/products/activebpelent/activebpel_tomcat/index.html I can't see anybody deploying a BPEL process without process persistence capabilities. So essentially - if you want to "really" use it - you have to go commercial. It is ODE's intent to provide capabilities such as process persistence with no strings attached. Back in the day, John Newton, ex-Documentum and currently Alfresco ECM founder had the same impression - while the ActiveBPEL engine itself was attractive, the constricted license structure prevented it from being included/integrated into their ECM suite. Hope this helps. Cheers, Zubin. On 9/23/06, Uday Subbarayan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi All: I just came across Ode and wondering why do we need another open source BPEL engine as we already have ActiveBPEL? I am sure there will be lot's of reasons(tech & business) behind it and just want to understand it... Thanks, -Uday. I don't blog but e-write here: http://uds-web.blogspot.com --------------------------------- Stay in the know. Pulse on the new Yahoo.com. Check it out.
