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ActiveVOS 6.0 gains BPMN for adjusting workflows


By David Worthington
September 10, 2008 — 
The developer of a visual service orchestration environment for Java has updated its product to export business process models to Business Process Execution Language for the fine-tuning of workflows involving people. It has also added complex event processing to increase developer responsiveness.

Active Endpoints’ ActiveVOS 6.0 became generally available yesterday. ActiveVOS is a visual service orchestration development environment that uses BPEL4PEOPLE and WS-Human Task to recognize and work with human-focused tasks.

It works in conjunction with debugging, deployment and testing facilities to help project teams design and maintain composite applications.

Version 6.0 adds Business Process Modeling Notation; its designer has a view for BPMN similar to its existing BPEL canvass, said product manager Mike Moniz. He added that developers may add metadata to the model and simulate it with real or historical data before exporting it to BPEL or, alternatively, Extensible Business Document Language.

BPEL permits the logical model to be transformed into a running application, according to the company. Likewise, BPEL processes can be converted into BPMN to document processes.

ActiveVOS can import BPMN models from other modeling tools, including Microsoft Visio.

New Complex Event Processing (CEP) capabilities can help identify when processes created from models run awry with real-world operations. ActiveVOS’ CEP engine uses an event processing language to identify key performance indicators and patterns within a process, and developers can adjust processes in response, explained Moniz.

“ActiveVOS 6.0 helps elevate SOA investments and developer knowledge to the level of business process outcomes,” said Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions, a SOA think tank, said in a prepared statement. “By focusing on practical, visual tools for creating services-based applications—and integrating many process orchestration features into a single product—ActiveVOS 6.0 accelerates the productivity returns of process-centric applications. The market clearly needs to better empower enterprises and developers to reap business-level rewards from their IT systems and assets, especially as they examine and invest in services-oriented architecture.”

In response to customer feedback, Active Endpoints has updated its console's look and feel, and it has also added new content, such as business intelligence- and reporting tools-based dashboards for business analysts and end users, to monitor business process activity, he said.

It has also included a wizard for developers to reuse plain old Java objects as native Web services in order to orchestrate Web services that already exist, Moniz explained.

ActiveVOS 6.0 runs on Java EE servers, including JBoss, Tomcat, WebLogic and WebSphere. It is priced at US$12,000 per CPU socket for deployment licenses and $5,000 for development licenses. Active Endpoints asks customers to contact it for pricing for virtualized environments.


Related Search Term(s): BPEL, Java, SOA & SaaS, Active Endpoints


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