ODEO new release

Recently, I released a new version 1.1.34 of ODEO (it's ODE tuned for Oracle and ServiceMix).
You can check details (and downloads) here: http://top.touk.pl/confluence/display/top/ODEO.
This version contains yet another set of fixes, which drive your BPEL engine more robust and useful for production use.
Recent improvements include: faster redeployment for high-load installations, priorities for jobs and digests for compiled processes (which enable substitution of xpaths in processes and have old instances continued in new version).
There are also some bug fixes and user experience improvements, so you are welcome to check it out!

HISE home page

Apache HISE has recenlty kickstarted and has a home page here: http://incubator.apache.org/hise/index.html.
Apache HISE is Human Interactions Service Engine. It's an open source implementation of WS HumanTask specification. HISE proposal can be found here proposal.
A voting took place on Apache ODE developer's list and resulted in voting for Apache HISE. You can find vote results here: markmail. Apache HISE is looking for people interested in leveraging this project.

BPEL in Practice

I had a presentation on Warsaw JUG along with Maciej Próchniak.
It was a brief overview of BPEL syntax and Apache ODE features.
Maciej gave a good overview of SMX3 and SMX4.
There are materials available to download (examples included). Details are here.

HISE

HISE stands for Human Interactions Service Engine.
I have recently posted a proposal, which was accepted by Apache ODE PMC, which means the development will start soon.
If you are interested in this project, you are welcome to join us.