WSO2 Business Process Management is a key technology for increasing productivity and re-energizing businesses, making them more competitive. The WSO2 Business Process Server enables developers to easily deploy business processes written using the WS-BPEL standard, and also serves as the business process management and hosting environment for your SOA.
Features
Define and Execute Business Processes
- Supports WS-BPEL 2.0 and BPEL4WS 1.1
- Long running stateful processes
- Short running stateless or stateful processes
- In memory process execution for short running processes
- Message and time triggered message handling
- Processes secured with WS-Security, Kerberos and more
- Security context propagation through processes to partners
- Secure invocation of partners with WS-Security, Kerberos and more
Data Manipulation & Extensibility
- Powerful data manipulation via XPath 1.0/2.0, XSLT 1.0/2.0, XQuery 1.0 and E4X
- Extensible via custom activities defined using Java APIs
- XPath extensions for Java invocation
Define Workflows Interacting with People
- Supports WS-Human Task 1.1, BPEL4People 1.1
- Integration of people for performing tasks and receiving notifications
- Management of deadlines and escalation to other users and roles (including integration to WSO2 Identity Server for user and role management)
- Role based access control for activities
- Google Gadget for interacting with task manager and for task execution
- Ability to create custom user interfaces for tasks
Create & Monitor Custom Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
- Extension activity for selectively publishing events from any process to WSO2 Business Activity Monitor
- Define KPIs to run in WSO2 Business Activity Monitor and generate custom gadgets for dashboards or reports
Graphical Process Modeling
- Powerful graphical editor via WSO2 Developer Studio
- Drag-n-drop visual editor for any WS-BPEL process model including XPath assistant
- Store, lifecycle manage and govern processes, partners and endpoints via integration with WSO2 Governance Registry
- Create and manage process deployment artifacts
- Import and edit BPEL processes developed using other tools such as SoftwareAG ARIS, Oracle SOA Suite, Microsoft BizTalk and IBM Process Manager
Process Management via Graphical Administration Console
- Flexible deployment and management of processes including security, throttling and caching
- Process versioning including dynamic updates to running processes
- Flexible management of process instances including terminate, suspend, resume, retry and cleanup
- Graphical auditing and troubleshooting of instances
- Dashboard with snapshot of failed, suspended, active and long running instances
Integrates to Existing Environment
- Pluggable storage choices including MySQL, Oracle, MSSQL and DB2
- Use any existing enterprise identity system including LDAP, Microsoft - Active Directory or any JDBC database
- Task manager API for integrating human tasks to any enterprise infrastructure including portals and e-mail clients
High Availability, Scalability and Stability
- Horizontal scaling via clustering with stateless server architecture
- Distributed response caching for higher performance
- Supports highly available deployment
- Process dehydration for running large volumes of processes
- Long term execution stability via configurable persistence levels with low resource utilization
Lightweight, Developer Friendly and Easy to Deploy
- Easy to debug processes with tools for message tracing and interactive testing with TryIt capabilities
- Server customization via feature provisioning of any WSO2 middleware capability
- Choice of deployment to on-premise servers, private cloud, or managed cloud, without configuration changes
- Integrated with SVN, Maven, Ant and other standard tools for development & deployment
- Integrated to WSO2 Developer Studio, Eclipse-based IDE for all WSO2 products
Manage & Monitor
- Comprehensive management & monitoring Web console with enterprise-level security
- Built-in collection and monitoring of standard access and performance statistics
- JMX MBeans for key metrics monitoring and management
- Integrates with WSO2 Business Activity Monitor for operational audit and KPI monitoring and management
- Flexible logging support with integration to enterprise logging systems
- Centralized configuration management across different deployment environments with lifecycles and versioning via integration to WSO2 Governance Registry
