Posted on Friday, April 24th, 2009 at 5:29 pm
Co-Evolution of BPMN and BPEL Drives BPM in SOA Settings
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While Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) has gotten a lot attention in the developer community, the Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) has grown in importance in the business community. Technologies built on both standards promise to simplify the communication between analysts and developers and the development of SOA applications. But challenges remain in translating business models built in BPMN into applications written in BPEL. The BPMN notation provides a set of standards for describing what the elements of an application look like. It has gained popularity as companies learn how to use it to enable business analysts to create applications. “The big surge in interest comes when the pretty picture not only helps me figure it out, but helps me build it,” said Dan Sholler, Research Director at Gartner. “But no matter how good this becomes, I think people would be fooling themselves to assume that we will come to a time when you can draw a picture and have it run on a huge multi-vendor multi-technology kind of instance. There are still going to be a lot of dependencies here.”
