Understanding SOA, Web Services, BPM, BPEL, and More
Part One: SOA, Web Services, and BPM
P.J. Jakovljevic - December 22, 2004

Introduction

The battle for the dominance in Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Web services has so far largely been a war of words without the clear winner yet (and not any time soon), as many underlying Internet-based standards have emerged only recently. Still, the advocates of both major platforms/frameworks, Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) and Microsoft .NET, agree on the future of Web services, and have been building similar technology frameworks for developers. Both the Java and .NET camps also rely on the same set of established standards such as:..