Welcome to ebPML.org
ebPML is a site dedicated to the standards, technologies and products of Service Oriented Computing, Business Process Management and Model Driven Architectures. My main interest is to contribute to the concept of Service Oriented Computing that was initially coined by Prof. Mike Papazoglou, with the hope to find an architecture and application model that will fully enable BPM and the convergence of EAI, B2B and application platforms like J2EE or .NET. I follow actively most BPM related standards: BPEL, BPEL4PEOPLE, BPMN, BPDL, XPDL, WS-CDL and ebBP. I was one of the editors of the ebBP 1.1. and 2.0 specifications. The PML section (Process Markup Languages) provides an analysis of the leading specifications. I have also started an effort to create the metamodel of the whole SOA specification stack, including the BPM related standards. If are looking for the old ebpml site, here it is , otherwise if you are new to the site the best places to start are:
You can download this minibook on InfoQ.com (free after registration). The book is about Composite Software Construction: understanding SOA in the context of a programming model. I have created a two hour flash presentation introducing the main concepts of the book. If you need some of the figures from the book for your presentations, I have made them available here. wsper, an abstract SOA framework that I am working on This presentation which I gave as a guest of Prof. Vincenzo D'Andrea (Trento University) and Prof. Akhil Kumar (Penn State University). It summarizes my current thinking on Service Oriented Computing. Check also this article for a survey of Web services technologies. Here are some thoughts about why Composite Applications are going to become the application model of SOA. This is a more recent version of this presentation. You may also want to check this white paper I wrote on Fundamentals of Service Orientation My blog is were I publish ideas and opinions. The publication section contains all my papers (most of them are not refereed). The view of the SOC stack. Jean-Jacques Dubray
Quotes
Jon Bosak	Business is complicated. Any solution that doesn't reflect that complexity is not a real solution.
Steve Ballmer	I believe our industry has a responsibility, and an opportunity, to dramatically simplify the computing environment by seamlessly weaving together all of the devices, services and multiple layers of software into a coherent, efficiently managed technology framework
T. Reenskaug	Any method that prevents the programmer writing code, is a good method
Don Box	[CORBA/DCOM] really assumes shared classes [...] between the two endpoints. [SOA] exists to break this dependency. This is the biggest architectural change but it's profound
Kevin Pollari	The real secret sauce of Service Oriented Architecture is enabling better uses and standardization of business application logic
Ira Fuchs	Programming languages today remain syntactic, abbreviated, and procedural, as opposed to semantic, verbose, and declarative