Re: Going to SOA and BPEL direction

<yuriy_zubarev_at_yahoo.ca> wrote in message news:1146506892.564580.38430_at_y43g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
> Greetings,
>
> I work for an IT department of a medium size company where a decision
> has been made to move to SOA paradigm. Whether or not the company truly
> needs to get into SOA world is a separate question but the reality is
> that SOA is an official strategy right now and BPEL (BPEL Process
> Manager from Oracle) is a tool that will invariably get us there. The
> pressure is to try to use BPEL every time two or more systems need to
> talk to each other so that we unify and standardize all integration
> interfaces. The problem is (at least in my opinion) that overwhelming
> majority of those "interfaces" fall under "data population"
> pattern. We have a system as a master of, let's say, employee data,
> and 10 other systems requiring the same data or a subset of it. So
> every nigh bunch of scheduled jobs pump data around. One of the drives
> is to have BPEL do pumping work as well. I know that BPEL Process
> Manager has all these connectors that can operate with databases and
> files and theoretically it can do the job. It just seems to me like a
> gigantic misuse of the tool and technology.
>
> Any one can share similar experiences and how you dealt with them? May
> be some interesting approaches to the whole "data population"
> scenario. I was also wondering if any one ran into a decision diagram
> or decision matrix on whether or not BPEL is a right solution for a
> particular set of problems.
>
> Thank you for your time.
>

Use BPEL when you want to program proces logic, with decisions and so on. Received on Fri May 05 2006 - 23:55:11 CEST