By Jonathan Crow

With the wave of discussions going on right now about BPM + REST, we are excited that we were we able to get Jason Woodruff to come to our user conference and moderate a panel called Restful BPM – the elephant in the room?.

The session addresses the impact of restful, resource-oriented architecture on the rationale for BPM. It’s a question that is getting asked more and more often right now. John Mettraux writes about restful bpm and asks:

RESTful orchestration

Has it been reached ? By adding the HTTP verbs to a business process definition language ?

Isn’t that a kind of specialization ? BPEL was born with a similar specialization a few years ago.

Christina Lau at IBM wrote an article BPM and RESTful SOA in which she stated that RESTful SOA is “a key enabling technology that makes [getting into BPM without a huge investment] possible.”

Our own CTO, Assaf Arkin, addresses what Intalio is doing with REST in his session Deep Inside the Minds at Intalio|Labs. With all this momentum for REST + BPM I think Jason and his panel will have a lot to discuss.

May 28th, 2008