Zero code - hmmm

[marilyn_pratt]

While at Sapphire this week, my friend and colleague <a href="https://www.sdn.sap.comhttp://www.sdn.sap.comhttp://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/com.sap.sdn.businesscard.sdnbusinesscard?u=vi4acammux4%3d">craig Cmehil</a> brought to my attention the writing of BPM expert <a href="http://www.ghalimi.name/">Ismael Ghalimi</a>, and ironically Ismael attended Sapphire in Orlando as a result of a bold initiative that invited bloggers as press and analysts (clever concept IMHO), and I wish I had had the opportunity to hear him directly. So when thinking about stimulating conversation concerning Business Process Modeling, one didn't have to go very far. It was just a few conference rooms away, or in my case a few clicks away (thanks Craig)

Take a look at what Ismail has to say about modeling and I wonder how this could evoke conversation and response in our SAP context.

This piece is called:

<a href="http://itredux.com/blog/2006/05/01/why-zero-code-matters/">Why Zero Code Matters</a>

[Former Member]

Very intersting link indeed. Many thanks ...

This led to a very intriguing white paper written jointly by BEA and IBM on the business process execution language..

ftp://www6.software.ibm.com/software/developer/library/ws-bpelj.pdf

[marilyn_pratt]

You can also see more about the BPEL topic on SDN..there is a great new topic area for standards to be found by navigating under the ESA node.

It's called: <a href="https://www.sdn.sap.comhttp://www.sdn.sap.comhttp://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/developerareas/esa/standards">Standards</a>.

If you scroll down the main page you will find BPEL contents, as well as BPEL4people.

Lots of great "getting started" content as well as some heavy specification descriptions.

Let us know what you think!

I found the BPEL discussion really interesting in Ismael's blog as well.

This particularly caught my attention:

"If no business logic can hide behind the boxes, business analysts are more likely to understand what process analysts have done, and this is a sure way to <u>bridge the business-IT divide, if not obliterate it entirely</u>.

Second, human beings make mistakes, and the exercise of writing code is an error-prone one. In average, one BPMN process shape leads to 10 lines of BPEL code, and one line of BPEL code replaces approximately 10 lines of J2EE code."

So if this isn't about eliminating code, it definately is about reducing it.

Marilyn

[Former Member]

Touche !!!

Fantastic link with a number of white papers. A must see..

Thanks for pointing to the exciting stuff on WS-BPEL Extension for People (BPEL4People).