In my current project we are going to need a BPEL engine besides our Mule CE implementation. Actually, we will use Mule for our stateless communication between systems and use BPEL for the stateful processes. One of the possible frameworks to use as a BPEL engine is Apache ODE. In this post I will show you how you can start a BPEL process in Apache ODE with Mule. As you will see, it is merely a combination of posts I made earlier, but I think it is nice to have the complete thing in one post.

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Recently, Netbeans 6.8 GA was released. Great news … but unfortunately, SOA and UML support has disappeared from the release.

The SOA plugins are no longer available and at the moment there are no plans to bring back this feature set. NetBeans 6.1 and 6.5 were the last releases with full support for SOA functionality.

“Official” reaction from the Netbeans forum:

I know, it’s unfortunate that we don’t have the resources to support every feature we want to.. SOA, UML and Visual Web development are no longer supported, but Java EE 6, PHP support, and many other improvements have been made and more are on the way for next release.

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