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1. Re: How are ESB and jBPM related?
marklittle Apr 6, 2006 5:21 AM (in response to wsjboss)Not really. Roughly speaking, jBPM is about the coordination of disparate tasks into an overall business process. The ESB is about (and again, this is rough - check out the ESB docs on labs.jboss.com for more information) SOA, message routing, service deployment and management etc. It's an infrastructure that something like jBPM could use to conduct its work (though jBPM does not need ESB).
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2. Re: How are ESB and jBPM related?
wsjboss Apr 6, 2006 1:22 PM (in response to wsjboss)The obvious follow-up question: What would jBPM gain if using ESB as service infrastructure instead of what it currently uses?
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3. Re: How are ESB and jBPM related?
marklittle Apr 6, 2006 1:24 PM (in response to wsjboss)An ESB provides service management, deployment, versioning, message translation etc. All sorts of things you won't find out-of-the-box with jBPM I believe.
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4. Re: How are ESB and jBPM related?
kukeltje Apr 7, 2006 12:22 PM (in response to wsjboss)exactly.... and all kinds of connections to services with protocols not supported by jBPM. Developing a generic actionhandler for accessing services on the esb is on the todo list for jBPM.
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5. Re: How are ESB and jBPM related?
marklittle Apr 9, 2006 4:59 AM (in response to wsjboss)+1
ESB and jBPM are complimentary technologies, which can be used in isolation if necessary.