BPS Features

Feature	Description
Define and Execute Business Processes.	BPMN 2.0. WS-BPEL 2.0, BPEL4WS 1.1 Long running stateful processes. Short running stateless or stateful processes. In-memory process execution for short-running processes. Time-triggered message handling. Processes secured with WS-Security.
Data Manipulation and Extensibility.	Powerful data manipulation via XPath 1.0/2.0, JSONPath, XSLT 1.0/2.0, XQuery 1.0 and E4X. Extensible via custom activities defined using Java APIs.
Define Workflows Interacting with People.	Support for UserTasks within BPMN workflows Support for WS-Human Task 1.1, BPEL4People 1.1 and BPMN User Task. 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. Ability to create custom user interfaces for tasks. Easily customizable UI applications for WS-Human Task (Humantask-Explorer) and BPMN User Task (BPMN-Explorer) with form generation support.
Create and Monitor Custom Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).	Extension activities 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 developing any BPMN process model Drag-n-drop visual editor for any WS-BPEL process model including XPath assistant. WS-Human Tasks Editor Store, manage lifecycle 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. Process versioning support for both BPMN and BPEL process models. Flexible management of process instances including terminate, suspend, resume, retry and cleanup. Graphical auditing and troubleshooting of BPMN and BPEL process instances. Dashboard with snapshots of failed, suspended, active and long running process instances.
Integrates with Existing Environments.	Pluggable storage choices including MySQL, Oracle, MSSQL and PostgreSQL. Use any existing enterprise identity system including LDAP, Microsoft Active Directory or any JDBC database. Comprehensive REST API for integrating BPMN processes with any enterprise infrastructure. 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 for services exposed by BPEL process models. Supports highly available deployment. Process dehydration for running large volumes of BPEL processes. Long-term execution stability via configurable persistence levels with low resource utilization History tables for moving the completed BPMN process instance data from higher performance.
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, without configuration changes. Integrated with SVN, Maven, Ant and other standard tools for development and deployment. Integrated to WSO2 Developer Studio, Eclipse-based IDE for all WSO2 products.
Manage and Monitor	Comprehensive management and 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.

XML & WS-* Standards Support

BPMN 2.0
BPEL4WS 1.1
WS-BPEL 2.0
WS-Human Task 1.1
BPEL4People 1.1
SOAP 1.1/1.2
WSDL 1.1
WSDL 2.0
MTOM, XOP & SOAP with Attachments
WS-Addressing
WS-Security 1.0/1.1
WS-Trust
WS-SecurityPolicy
WS-Policy
WS-PolicyAttachment

Open Source Components Included in WSO2 BPS/Java

Activiti BPMN engine (BPMN)
Apache ODE (BPEL)
Apache Axis2 (SOAP)
Apache Axiom (High performance XML Object Model)
Apache Rampart/Apache WSS4J (WS-Security)
Apache Rahas(WS-SecureConversation)
Apache Batik
WS-Addressing implementation in Axis2
Apache Neethi (WS-Policy)
WS-SecurityPolicy implementation in Axis2
Apache XML Schema
Apache Derby (Database)
Apache OpenJPA
Embedded Apache Tomcat
Spring Framework

Apache Axis2 Modules Included with WSO2 BPS

Apache Rampart: Supporting WS-Security & WS-Trust
Mex: Supporting WS-MetaDataExchange
Statistics: For gathering & monitoring statistics
SOAP Tracer: For tracing SOAP requests & responses
XFer: Supporting WS-Transfer
XKMS: Supporting XML Key Management Specification