EPB WS-BPEL Draft is available for Download

As of today you will find the first EPB file available for download !!!

You can find "EPB_WS-BPEL_Draft_03092007.txt" under the Download section of the enterprisepaymentbus.org website. This is the first draft version of an Open Payment Work flow described in WS_BPEL, and I encourage every payment professional to provide feedback and help further enhance the work flow. Please feel free to submit your comments to bart.cant@gmail.com

Intro to WS-BPEL

Before we dive into some key aspects of the Enterprise Payment Bus, I like to share with you some more information on WS-BPEL.

The OASIS WS-BPEL Technical Committee approved the WS-BPEL 2.0 specification on 1/31/2007. The official Committee Spec Release Candidate can be download from http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/22036/wsbpel-specification-draft%20candidate%20CD%20Jan%2025%2007.pdf.
An interesting article about the Goals of the WS_BPEL 2.0 specification can be found at http://xml.coverpages.org/BPEL4WS-DesignGoals.pdf


WS-BPEL 2.0 is a major component of the Enterprise Payment Bus:

• WS-BPEL is build on compatible Web services standards


• WS-BPEL is an XML based language


• WS-BPEL will be used to define the Payment Business Processes that interact with external Payment System entities through Web service operations


• WS-BPEL will be used to define a set of Web service orchestration concepts for the Payment work flow that are meant to be used in common by both the external (abstract) and internal(executable) views of a payment business process.


• WS-BPEL will be used to define a long-running Payment transaction model that is based on proven techniques like compensation actions and scoping to support failure recovery for parts of the long-running Payment business process.

Welcome to the Enterprise Payment Bus - Open Source Project

Welcome Payment Professional,

I start this blog to inform you about new progress in an exciting project that I have been working on since the summer of 2005. Using new technologies like Mule, WS-BPEL and a new standard XML format ISO20022 I created a new payment workflow which I called the "Enterprise Payment Bus". The idea to create an ESB like payment workflow started from conversations with Ivan Mitrovic and myself . In the last 2 years I have worked independently on this project which tries to describe a full payment process written in BPEL based on a ISO20022 XML message

I encourage every Payment Professional to participate and provide your feedback to this open source project.