Deciding on BPEL Wiki Sections

["Carol Geyer" <carol.geyer@oasis-open.org>]

In case it's useful for today's discussion of how to divide the sections for
our BPEL Wiki Knowledgebase, here are some of the sections used at a few other
BPEL resources. (They all have variations on Intro/Background/History/Specs.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BPEL
BPEL Design Goals
Adding 'programming in the small' support to BPEL
Relationship of BPEL to BPMN

http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/matjaz_bpel1.html
Orchestration versus Choreography
Building a Business Process
Fault Handling and Signaling
Event Management

http://www.idealliance.org/papers/dx_xml03/papers/04-06-01/04-06-01.html
Why Orchestrate Web Services?
Why Orchestrate Web Services With BPEL?
What can BPEL do?
Elements of a BPEL Process 
BPEL and complimentary WS standards
Getting Started with WSO and BPEL

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/23964/wsbpel-v2.0-primer.htm
Design Goals 8
Basic Concepts 9
 Structure of BPEL Processes 9
 Relationship to Business Partners 9
 State of a BPEL Process 10
 Behavior of a BPEL Process 11
      Providing and Consuming Web Services 11
      Structuring the Process Logic. 13
      Repetitive Activities 14
      Parallel Processing. 15
      Data Manipulation. 18
      Exception Handling. 19
Advanced Concepts I 21
 Refining the Process Structure. 21
      Lifecycle of a Scope. 21
      Scoped Fault Handling. 22
      Terminating Running Work. 22
      Undoing Completed Work. 23
      Event Handling. 24
 Advanced Web Service Interactions 24
      Selective Event Processing. 24
      Multiple Event Processing. 25
      Concurrent Event Processing. 26
      Message Correlation. 27
      Concurrent Message Exchanges 29
 More Parallel Processing. 30
 Delayed Execution. 32
 Immediately Ending a Process 32
 Doing Nothing. 33
 Data Validation. 33
 Concurrent Data Manipulation. 34
 Dynamic Business Partner Resolution. 35
Advanced Concepts II 38
 Language Extensibility. 38
      Expression Languages and Query Languages 38
      Elements and Attributes of Other Namespaces 38
 Abstract Processes 40
      The Common Base. 40
      Abstract Process Profile for Observable Behavior 41
      Abstract Process Profile for Templates 43
Using WS-BPEL. 44
Benefits of WS-BPEL



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