JAX-WS and BPEL are maturing.
February 6th, 2007
Some interesting recent developments in the Web Service space that I’ve been meaning to point to:
- JAX-WS 2.1 has been released. Enter the tubes…
- BPEL 2.0 is now almost an official OASIS standard. Do we now have to start referring to it as WS-BPEL instead of plain old BPEL/BPEL4WS?
Only slightly related, some interesting Java WS stacks benchmarks:
- Axis2 vs XFire, published by WSO2. (with interesting follow-up from Hani and retort from Sanjiva Weerawarana).
- JAX-WS 2.1+JAXB vs Axis2.1.1+XMLBeans, published by Sun.
We’ve been in the BPEL business since 2002. We’ve called it plain old BPEL since then, and don’t plan to change any time soon. Obviously, we refer to the full standard name (WS-BPEL 2.0) in formal references, but BPEL alone seems to work just fine in normal communications.
BTW, our pronounciation of the acronym is Beepull (i.e. not Bipple or Bepple).