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Active Endpoints automates UI creation for Web services


By David Worthington
August 27, 2009 — 
Active Endpoints, a business process management and automation software maker, has introduced an automated form designer that it says will accelerate process application design in its ActiveVOS visual orchestration software.

ActiveVOS 7.0, which will ship on Sept. 15, includes a form designer that has the ability to read Web Services Description Language, making the form a service endpoint. "This direct link eliminates the need for things like JSP coding to access services," explained the company's director of marketing Sonal Rajan.

The forms are AJAX-based and can be deployed to process participants via a permanent URL to initiate those processes, said Alex Neihaus, vice president of marketing for Active Endpoints.

ActiveVOS includes a role-based workplace application called ActiveVOS Central for developers, users and operation staff. It uses WS-Human Task, a standard formed to execute processes that deal with people, to initiate and manage workflows with human-focused tasks.

"Until ActiveVOS 7.0, you had to create a form of some kind, then link that form to a database or some process using Java Server Pages or an alternative…Then you thought about how you’d call a database or some other application to interact with that form," Rajan explained.

"In the ActiveVOS 7.0 forms designer, you will have a list of all available services right there in the designer…That service could be calling 50 databases across a network, performing all kinds of work…You don’t know or care…It’s just a service that delivers to your form."

Pricing for development servers is US$15,000 for a first-time CPU socket license, said Neihaus. Customers may purchase additional licenses later at a cost of $28,000 per CPU socket.

Beyond form generation, ActiveVOS 7.0 leverages an early implementation of Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) 2.0, which is a draft specification from the Object Management Group (OMG) that enables developers and business analysts to collaborate on process design and implementation. OMG will deliver an alpha specification in fall 2009. Its final submission was made in June.

With BPMN 2.0, BPMN business process models can, for the first time, combine human and system tasks. Prior to the inclusion of BPMN 2.0, ActiveVOS relied solely upon BPEL4PEOPLE to recognize and work with human-focused tasks.


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