Integration Imperative

This article written by Rich Schwerin appeared in Oracle Magazine in November/December 2004 issue.

http://www.oracle.com/technology/oramag/oracle/04-nov/o64industry.html

This article provides good general overview of BPEL. This article is definitely good for beginners.

For those who are interested in learning about BPEL4WS in details, should go below link

IBM BPEL4WS Tutorial

Bright Future for J2EE Web Services Development

This article appeared in Web Services Journal on October 23.

http://www.sys-con.com/story/?storyid=46718

J2EE based Web Services does have bright future due to broad range of J2EE applications which allows us to expose our existing applications as Web Services and some of those tools does work at a minimal complexity level. Glad that author pointed out importance of security, reliability, and performance of Web Services, without which there is no future for Web Services.