From general-return-7875-apmail-incubator-general-archive=incubator.apache.org@incubator.apache.org Wed Feb 15 23:16:59 2006 Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-general-archive@www.apache.org Received: (qmail 10197 invoked from network); 15 Feb 2006 23:16:58 -0000 Received: from hermes.apache.org (HELO mail.apache.org) (209.237.227.199) by minotaur.apache.org with SMTP; 15 Feb 2006 23:16:58 -0000 Received: (qmail 42718 invoked by uid 500); 15 Feb 2006 23:16:52 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-general-archive@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 42592 invoked by uid 500); 15 Feb 2006 23:16:52 -0000 Mailing-List: contact general-help@incubator.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: general@incubator.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list general@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 42575 invoked by uid 99); 15 Feb 2006 23:16:52 -0000 Received: from asf.osuosl.org (HELO asf.osuosl.org) (140.211.166.49) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Wed, 15 Feb 2006 15:16:52 -0800 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=10.0 tests=HTML_MESSAGE,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: pass (asf.osuosl.org: domain of bill.f.flood@gmail.com designates 64.233.182.195 as permitted sender) Received: from [64.233.182.195] (HELO nproxy.gmail.com) (64.233.182.195) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Wed, 15 Feb 2006 15:16:51 -0800 Received: by nproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id c31so18839nfb for ; Wed, 15 Feb 2006 15:16:30 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=PRq7ldwyIQsOqi7eVQV912TV7DAignxr42iHl4BSwd+VtkWQH4bIwYe2TEeCf7D79WQZKV5H5uPlaM/99wPtilGet0VArMDIpUgZljXR7oqfHXZzdcRvrZEhCjDylD/udCRGZTicBBDYpMZd1GIL3m4OiMNYfLtH9fgquJ5Xg/8= Received: by 10.49.51.13 with SMTP id d13mr32629nfk; Wed, 15 Feb 2006 15:16:29 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.48.215.12 with HTTP; Wed, 15 Feb 2006 15:16:29 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 16:16:29 -0700 From: Bill Flood To: general@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Ode / BPEL Donation of BPEL 2.0 Engine In-Reply-To: <52b3da2a0602151407k2edc93a7q12bbd5053477bd8e@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_11377_16114067.1140045389753" References: <52b3da2a0602151407k2edc93a7q12bbd5053477bd8e@mail.gmail.com> X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org X-Spam-Rating: minotaur.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N ------=_Part_11377_16114067.1140045389753 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline It's all good news for the community at large! On 2/15/06, Ismael Ghalimi 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 [arkin@intalio.com], co-author of the BPEL specification > * Alex Boisvert [boisvert@intalio.com], PXE Developer > * Jacques-Alexandre Gerber [gerber@intalio.com], BPEL4People Developer > * Holger Hoffstaette [holger@wizards.de], PXE Developer > * Iwan Memruk [imemruk@lohika.odessa.ua], BPEL4People Developer > * Maciej Szefler [mbs@intalio.com], PXE Chief Architect > * Matthieu Riou [matthieu.riou@gmail.com], Agila + PXE Developer > * Nazar Stasiv [nstasiv@lohika.lviv.ua] Console developer > * Olexandr Zakordonskyy [ozak@lohika.lviv.ua], PXE & Console developer > * Oleg Zenzin [ozenzin@lohika.odessa.ua], 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 OpenOR= B > 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 > ghalimi@intalio.com | www.intalio.com > weblog.itredux.com > > ------=_Part_11377_16114067.1140045389753--