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Subject: RE: [wsbpel] Issue - 63 - Support of Array


Hello David,

> But trying to purpose these things against transaction content
> and loops in XML content structures is a different story.  
> By transaction I mean EDI, Purchase Order,
> that stuff.  And so a Transaction engine processes same - products
> like DataJunction, GoXML Transform, Mercator, MQSeries mapper,
> OASIS CAM, and so on.  BPEL does not need to go there!  These things 
> are all webservice enabled already - let them handle business
> transactions, and pass back results required.

I strongly disagree here. One of the things a Business Process Engine has to do is splitting and merging. Typical examples are purchase orders from a customer, which has to be dispatched to multiple backend systems (for example different factories) or also a market place can process the shopping cart of a custoemr, which means to ask all the suppliers for the availability of the product. This is the intereesting stuff one wants to do with a process engine, and this is exactly why we (here at Seeburger) picked a language like BPEL to do this. I think there is even a looping sample in the spec or in one of IBM'S tutorials whic his iterating over the position lines of a document.

Greetings
Bernd Eckenfels
Chief Architect
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SEEBURGER AG - Edisonstr.1 , D-75015 Bretten, Germany
Fax: +49 (0)7252 96-2400 - Phone: +49 (0)7252 96-1256
mailto:b.eckenfels@seeburger.de - http://www.seeburger.de


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