WS-Engineer and WS-BPEL 2.0

WS-Engineer is being updated to support the new features of BPEL4WS, now known as WS-BPEL 2.0. WS-Engineer will however, still support features of BPEL4WS (WS-BPEL 1.1). Please refer to the WS-BPEL 2.0 specification for further details of the new features. Below you will find a list of these features and development status of WS-Engineer:

New Activities

ID	Category / Feature	Link to Specification	Status	WS-Engineer Version
1A	Added serial and parallel <forEach> with optional completion condition	11.7	pending	tbc
1B	Added <repeatUntil>	11.4	released	1.5.1
1C	Added new extension activity	10.9	not supported	n/a
1D	Changed <switch> to <if><elseif><else>	11.2	released	1.5.1
1E	Changed <terminate> to <exit>	10.10	released	1.5.1
1F	Different cases of <compensate> to <compensate> and <compensateScope>	12.4	pending	tbc

Message Operations

ID	Category / Feature	Link to Specification	Status	WS-Engineer Version
2A	join option has been added to correlation sets in order to allow multiple participants to rendezvous at the same process with a deterministic order	9.2	pending	tbc
2B	partnerLink can now be declared local to a scope	6.2	in development	tbc
2C	initializePartnerRole option has been added to specify whether an endpoint reference must be bound to a partner link during deployment	6.2	pending	tbc
2D	The messageExchange construct has been added to pair up concurrent <receive> and <reply> activities	10.4	in development	tbc

Scope Model

ID	Category / Feature	Link to Specification	Status	WS-Engineer Version
3A	New scope snapshot semantics have been defined	12.1	pending	tbc
3B	Fault handling during compensation has been clarified	12.5	pending	tbc
3C	The interaction between scope isolation and control links have been clarified	12.8	pending	tbc
3D	Enrichment of fault catching model	12.5	pending	tbc
3E	A <rethrow> activity has been added to fault handlers	10.11	pending	tbc
3F	The <terminationHandler> has been added to scopes	12.6	pending	tbc
3G	The exitOnStandardFault option has been added to processes and scopes	12	pending	tbc

Miscellaneous Changes

ID	Category / Feature	Link to Specification	Status	WS-Engineer Version
4A	repeatEvery alarm feature to event handlers	12.7	pending	tbc
4B	Clarified resources resolution (e.g. variable, partner link) for event handlers		no update required
4C	formal <documentation> support		no update required
4D	formal <documentation> support		no update required
4E	Added extension namespace declarations in order to specify what extension must be understood	5.4	pending	tbc

Abstract Processes

ID	Category / Feature	Link to Specification	Status	WS-Engineer Version
5A	Clarified Abstract Process usage patterns		not supported	n/a
5B	Introduced Abstract Profiles		not supported	n/a

Data Access

ID	Category / Feature	Link to Specification	Status	WS-Engineer Version
6A	Several clarifications have been added to the description of the <assign> activity's <copy> semantics	8.4	pending	tbc
6B	Variable initialization as part of the variable declaration has been added	8.1	pending	tbc