A lightweight component is not a container. Usually, JBI components can accept adeployments. For example a bpel service engine will accept deployment of bpel process. Lightweight components have limited features (for example existing ones do not have wsdl description), are configured using spring and are easier to write. They can also be deployed onto the servicemix-lwcontainer component.
Btw, where did you find a reference to a bpel lightweight component ? If you need orchestration, you can also take a look at http://www.bpmscript.org/ or http://servicemix.goopen.org/site/beanflow.html which do not use bpel. Cheers, Guillaume Nodet On 6/8/06, Alessandro Fredianelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Needing for jbi services orchestration, two options are available : the bpe service engine and the bpel lightweight component. It seems that "Lightweight components are simple jbi components that activate a single JBI endpoint and do not support service unit deployments", what does it really mean? thanks again. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex Boisvert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2006 6:42 PM Subject: Re: servicemix-bpe and pxe > Alessandro Fredianelli wrote: >> What's the difference between servicemix-bpe service and pxe lightweight >> component? >> > The two modules are meant for different process engines. > > BPE is a BPEL 1.1 implementation that was recently open-sourced and > donated by Sybase into the Apache incubator. > > http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/ode/scratch/bpe/ > > PXE is a BPEL 1.1+2.0 implementation that was donated by Intalio into > the Apache incubator. > > http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/ode/scratch/pxe/ > > Both of these implementations form the Apache Ode project. Some useful > links about Ode are: > > http://incubator.apache.org/projects/ode.html > http://wiki.apache.org/ode/FrontPage > > There is an ongoing effort to rationalize and integrate both BPE and PXE > to form a common implementation, as described on the roadmap: > > http://wiki.apache.org/ode/RoadMap > > In the mean time, ServiceMix offers ways to integrate both BPE and PXE > by offering the two distinct JBI service engine wrappers that you > mentioned. > > regards, > alex > >
