Evolution of integration technologies

Organizations iteratively work on improving and modifying business processes to stay competitive in the market. This requires application implementations to be more flexible that by design adapt to the changes in business processes. In other words, most enterprise businesses need agility in creating and maintaining applications to run mission-critical businesses functions, and that requires a platform to quickly create and update business process and/or workflow services. Usually these business process services are composite services that depend on the multiple services within and between enterprises. The application's platform, that enables mission-critical business processes online, is easy to maintain if they are developed using technology components such as SOA and BPEL.

This book uses the JDeveloper IDE for designing and validating BPEL services and Oracle BPEL Process Manager (part of SOA Suite) platform, which has a runtime engine, for BPEL services.