On Sep 23, 2006, at 7:46 PM, Uday Subbarayan wrote:
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...
Hmmm. On the off chance that this isn't a troll... :^)
There are some important differences between Apache ODE (=(PXE + BPE)/
2) and ActiveBPEL:
ODE is available under the business-friendly Apache 2.0 license,
while ActiveBPEL is GPL'd. (As Dims and Zubin pointed out.)
ODE is designed for integration with an ESB like ServiceMix or Mule
or even for piecemeal standalone use. It is less convenient to
integrate ActiveBPEL with an ESB.
And perhaps the largest and most important difference is exactly what
you see before you. ActiveBPEL is a product available under an open
source license, but ODE is an open source project in the process of
becoming a first-class citizen of the Apache community. You have a
diverse group of committers and mentors from a bunch of different
companies working together to build a great BPEL engine.
That said, you'd be hard-pressed to argue that I'm not biased...
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