Chapter 5. Business Process Choreography Fundamentals

We have concluded Part 1 of our journey and have thus enabled you by imparting the fundamental concepts in Business Integration, SOA, BPM, and ESB. We went through the process of installing and setting up the WID development environment and installing and configuring it properly. We also guided you through building the first BPEL-based module and also a mediation flow component-based mediation module. It's action time now! In the second part of the journey we will build an SOA-based Order Management Application for the fictitious company—JungleSea Inc. To prepare for this, we will first guide you through the various aspects and functions of WPS and WESB that are absolutely and fundamentally essential.

We intend to impart this knowledge and information to you with a What, When, and How approach. Topics covered include Business Process (WS-BPEL), Business Objects, Business Rules, State Machines, Visual Snippets, Compensation, Fault Handling...