Re: XProc versus BPEL

For BPEL dont forget the great open source product
https://sourceforge.net/projects/activebpel
They also have a comercial version, but the OS version is quite good.


As for comparing XProc and BPEL I also think its a mismatch of intent.

If you want to compare something to XProc I humbly suggest xmlsh 
(www.xmlsh.org) which is targeted at a much more similar set of use cases 
that xproc is (although it can handle non-xml data equally well).   Excepct 
an xproc module to xmlsh (based on calabash) shortly, and possibly a 
"native" xproc implementation in the far future.  But by itself (without the 
xproc plugin) the capibilities and intended use cases are similar, much more 
so then BPEL.

-David
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David A. Lee
dlee@calldei.com
http://www.calldei.com
http://www.xmlsh.org




> 2009/4/22 Costello, Roger L. wrote:
>
>> I've taken a stab at comparing XProc and BPEL.
>
>  Well, IMHO they have little in common.  The former is targeted at
> processing XML documents (connecting several processing steps) while
> the later is a declarative orchestration language for business
> processes.  Their subjects are not really the same beasts.
>
>  Regards,
>
> -- 
> Florent Georges
> http://www.fgeorges.org/
> 

Received on Wednesday, 22 April 2009 13:21:36 UTC