> Orbeon is suitable for such tasks. You just have to realize that it does 
> not pretend to be a full-fledged business process execution engine. For 
> that purpose, a BPEL engine is more appropriate. We intend to integrate 
> with such engine as soon as a satisfying open source BPEL engine is 
> available.

Right, "as soon as" bieng an important clause!  We've looked pretty hard
and not found much;  but this looks worth a try.  Better to be what you
say you are.

> XPL, the XML pipeline definition language implemented by Orbeon, allows 
> you to execute sequences of operations, and more, since XPL supports 
> conditonals and loops as well.

It appears to support both LDAP and JDBC?  (From looking at the
examples).

>  As you point out, it is currently more 
> geared towards user interfaces, but it is not a requirement to use it in 
> such a way. You can run pipelines from the command-line or embed them in 
> other applications. Presentation Server also comes with a scheduler that 
> allows you to run pipelines in the background.

Thanks for the quick feedback,  I'll definitely be giving this a closer
look.

> You currently have to write pipelines by hand in the XPL language.

Ok.



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