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Posted to dev@ode.apache.org by Jim Alateras <ji...@comware.com.au> on 2007/11/20 12:15:28 UTC

Re: Ode 1.1 Roadmap

Assaf,

Just going through the archive and wondering whether a spec exists for a 
restful extension to BPEL.

cheers
</jima>
Assaf Arkin wrote:
> 
> 
> On 6/5/07, *Sanjiva Weerawarana* <sanjiva@opensource.lk 
> <ma...@opensource.lk>> wrote:
> 
>     This is not to say that a nice pure REST interface doesn't have its
>     merits. However, BPEL is naturally limited in its RESTfulness by its
>     intrinsic modeling based on XSD.
> 
> 
> I think this is a problem of BPEL itself that's made to fit around the 
> WSDL SOAP-centric model, and the best way to solve it is by extending 
> BPEL to allow invocation on resources. I'm interested in coming up with 
> a short spec to extend BPEL just enough to make it REST friendly.
> 
> Anyone else interested in something like that?
> 
> Assaf
>  
> 
>     Sanjiva.
>     --
>     Sanjiva Weerawarana, Ph.D.
>     Founder & Director; Lanka Software Foundation; http://www.opensource.lk/
>     Founder, Chairman & CEO; WSO2, Inc.; http://www.wso2.com/
>     Director; Open Source Initiative; http://www.opensource.org/
>     Member; Apache Software Foundation; http://www.apache.org/
>     <http://www.apache.org/>
>     Visiting Lecturer; University of Moratuwa; http://www.cse.mrt.ac.lk/
> 
>

Re: Ode 1.1 Roadmap

Posted by Assaf Arkin <ar...@intalio.com>.
On 11/20/07, Jim Alateras <ji...@comware.com.au> wrote:
> Assaf,
>
> Just going through the archive and wondering whether a spec exists for a
> restful extension to BPEL.

In two parts:
http://ode.apache.org/restful-bpel-part-i.html
http://ode.apache.org/restful-bpel-part-ii.html

Assaf

>
> cheers
> </jima>
> Assaf Arkin wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 6/5/07, *Sanjiva Weerawarana* <sanjiva@opensource.lk
> > <ma...@opensource.lk>> wrote:
> >
> >     This is not to say that a nice pure REST interface doesn't have its
> >     merits. However, BPEL is naturally limited in its RESTfulness by its
> >     intrinsic modeling based on XSD.
> >
> >
> > I think this is a problem of BPEL itself that's made to fit around the
> > WSDL SOAP-centric model, and the best way to solve it is by extending
> > BPEL to allow invocation on resources. I'm interested in coming up with
> > a short spec to extend BPEL just enough to make it REST friendly.
> >
> > Anyone else interested in something like that?
> >
> > Assaf
> >
> >
> >     Sanjiva.
> >     --
> >     Sanjiva Weerawarana, Ph.D.
> >     Founder & Director; Lanka Software Foundation; http://www.opensource.lk/
> >     Founder, Chairman & CEO; WSO2, Inc.; http://www.wso2.com/
> >     Director; Open Source Initiative; http://www.opensource.org/
> >     Member; Apache Software Foundation; http://www.apache.org/
> >     <http://www.apache.org/>
> >     Visiting Lecturer; University of Moratuwa; http://www.cse.mrt.ac.lk/
> >
> >
>
>


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