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On 2/15/06, Ismael Ghalimi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Good afternoon, > > My name is Ismael Ghalimi, and I am the CEO of Intalio. Our company would > be > interested in participating to the Ode project through a donation of the > PXE > BPEL 2.0 engine and the dedication of development resources to the > project. > The PXE BPEL 2.0 engine is currently licensed under the CPL open source > license, and has been integrated into third-party products/projects such > as > Sun's Java Studio Enterprise and LogicBlaze's ServiceMix. > > We understand that multiple implementations of BPEL might be contributed > to > the project, and are willing to support the one that will be selected by > the > Ode community. We believe that Apache is the right community for the > development of a solid implementation of the latest BPEL specification, > and > our goal is to participate to this project as actively as we can, so that > the community at large could benefit from it. Ideally, we would like to > contribute to the development of a BPEL engine that could be deployed on > top > of any J2EE application server, integrated with any ESB, and support the > most current version of the BPEL specification. > > Alongside our donation of the PXE BPEL 2.0 engine, we are also willing to > contribute an AJAX-powered management console for the BPEL engine and an > XForms-based workflow engine that implements the concepts of the > BPEL4People > proposal from IBM and SAP, without relying on any extension of the BPEL > specification. We believe that the BPEL management console should become > part of the Ode project, while the BPEL4People workflow engine could > either > become part of the Ode project, or be developed through a separate > project. > > Additionally, the following people would participate to the project: > > * Assaf Arkin [EMAIL PROTECTED], co-author of the BPEL specification > * Alex Boisvert [EMAIL PROTECTED], PXE Developer > * Jacques-Alexandre Gerber [EMAIL PROTECTED], BPEL4People Developer > * Holger Hoffstaette [EMAIL PROTECTED], PXE Developer > * Iwan Memruk [EMAIL PROTECTED], BPEL4People Developer > * Maciej Szefler [EMAIL PROTECTED], PXE Chief Architect > * Matthieu Riou [EMAIL PROTECTED], Agila + PXE Developer > * Nazar Stasiv [EMAIL PROTECTED] Console developer > * Olexandr Zakordonskyy [EMAIL PROTECTED], PXE & Console developer > * Oleg Zenzin [EMAIL PROTECTED], BPEL4People Developer > > Beyond our open source work on PXE, Intalio has developed a good > experience > with Open Source projects in general and the Apache community in > particular. > For example, we were the original developers for OpenEJB, which served as > one of the building blocks for Geronimo. We also developed the original > codebase for Slide and donated OpenXML to the Xerces project, alongside > IBM's donation of XML4J. We also developed the Castor, OpenJMS and OpenORB > projects under Apache license. These projects are now being developed by > communities such as CodeHaus or ObjectWeb. > > Today, we wish to share our experience and resources with the Apache > community, and look forward to a very successful and exciting project. > > Best regards > -- > Ismael Chang Ghalimi, CEO > Intalio, The Open Source BPMS Company > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.intalio.com > weblog.itredux.com > >
