Batch Processing in a Services World

BPEL and Job Schedulers are both relevant even as IT infrastructures migrate to real time services-based processing.    This article will explain how BPEL and job schedulers (most recently branded as Workload Automationsuites) provide an integrated solution that can satisfy the needs of batch and real time processing in a services-orientated infrastructure. Industry leading distributed job schedulers, workload automation (WLA) products, are offered from UC4, Orsyp, CISCO and Advanced Systems Concept, Inc. Oracle offers an industry leading BPEL Process Manager that runs on a variety of Java EE containers.

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