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
