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Hi Marc,

thanks for these details about JWT and its relationship to SCOrWare. Some
questions:

- what do you mean by future website? Shall that be a wiki site from JWT or
on the original JWT website or a completely different one?
- your arguments about the problems of BPM, SOA and Open Source are perfect
and should be integrated into our future article. So, they can bring more
structure to the part written by Mickael about JWT and SOA.
- what is JWT4xxx?
- Frascati is a SOA/SCA framework and Bonita a workflow engine: how do they
both work together right now?

Best regards,

Florian

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Auftrag von Marc Dutoo
Gesendet: 12 September 2008 19:05
An: Java Workflow Toolbox
Betreff: [jwt-dev] More on JWT4SCOrWare

Hi all

Here is some fodder about JWT4SCOrWare I wrote for the future website. 
May be useful for the article, the presentation...

Regards,
Marc


      Why JWT4SCOrWare

JWT4SCOrWare aims to prove, using SCA, that Open Source, BPM and SOA are a
match in heaven that solves traditional BPM pitfalls, and brings together
orchestration and workflow paradigms.

Historically, BPM promised to the entreprise to bring improved productivity,
improved business monitoring, and business flexibility - by adapting to
changes in business practices. However, its concrete implementations have
been hardly quick and easy successes, mainly because they have been hampered
by two rampant problems :

    * the BPM Babel Tower issue : (too) many incompatible paradigms,
      standards, implementations, tooling drives ease of integration
      down whereas BPM should foster it. Proprietary vendors didn't have
      any incentive in solving it, because it kept competition out. The
      answer is focus on openness, standards, integration specifications
      and interoperability tools, which the JWT community aims to provide.
    * evolution of the entreprise Information System : unmanaged System
      Information integration meant that whenever a BPM-integrated
      business application was deployed in a new version (which could be
      as simple as removing a column in a database), impacted BPM
      processes were in risk of not working anymore, with losses in
      business as a consequence. Proprietary vendors had less of an
      incentive in solving it, because it brought them a steady stream
      of incoming business, and anyway it just was not their job to do.
      The answer is loosely coupled integration and information system
      governance, which SOA provides.

As an Open Source SOA service platform, SCOrWare Frascati brings meaningful
benefits to the" JWT for SOA" vision :

    * as an implementation of the SCA specifications, it is based on
      acknowledged standards, as well as being an heterogeneous, non
      intrusive answer to SOA
    * thanks to its SCA-provided unified service model, integrating
      Frascati once in a business process engine allows it to call
      services using any kind of supported protocols (Java, Web
      Services, RMI...)
    * being built on top of the OW2 Fractal component model, the service
      component model is at the heart of its architecture, making it
      flexible and extensible, IoC and AOP benefits being at the door
      among others
    * its efficiency relies on renowned, robust Open Source components,
      like Apache CXF.

Last but not least, JWT4SCOrWare brings a unique integration of SCA service
orchestration within workflows (business processes involving human
operators). This feature relies on JWT4xxx, a framework designed to, as
easily and as compliant to standards as it can be, integrate a Java service
platform within a Java business process engine. 
JWT4SCOrWare builds on it to achieve integration with the OW2 / Bull Bonita
3 workflow engine.
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