Title: Resources & Services
Category: documentation
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## Tutorials

 * [Developing, Deploying and Running a Hello World BPEL Process with the Eclipse BPEL Designer and Apache ODE](http://people.apache.org/~vanto/HelloWorld-BPELDesignerAndODE.pdf): A click-by-click Instruction
 * [BPEL mit Apache ODE und dem Eclipse BPEL-Designer unter Eclipse 3.4 (Ganymede) entwickeln](http://www.se.uni-hannover.de/lehre/tutorials/BPEL-ODE-Eclipse-Getting-Started.php) (german)
 * [Installation von Apache ODE in Eclipse 3.4 (Ganymede)](http://www.se.uni-hannover.de/lehre/tutorials/BPEL-ODE-Eclipse.php) (german)
 * [Hello-World-BPEL-Prozess mit Apache ODE in Eclipse 3.4 (Ganymede)](http://www.se.uni-hannover.de/lehre/tutorials/BPEL-ODE-HelloBPEL.php) (german)
 * [BPEL-Prozess mit einfachem Invoke auf Apache ODE in Eclipse 3.4 (Ganymede)](http://www.se.uni-hannover.de/lehre/tutorials/BPEL-ODE-SimpleInvoke.php) (german)
 * [ODE/BPELUnit Tutorial: Unit Testing BPEL processes with Test Coverage - Part I](http://static.se.uni-hannover.de/lehre/tutorials/BPELUnit-Coverage1.php)
 * [ODE/BPELUnit Tutorial: Unit Testing BPEL processes with Test Coverage - Part II](http://static.se.uni-hannover.de/lehre/tutorials/BPELUnit-Coverage2.php)
 * [How to setup Apache ODE with Tomcat 7 and Bitronix](http://sathwikbp.blogspot.de/2013/09/apache-ode-on-tomcat-7-with-bitronix.html)

## Projects using ODE

 * [Apache ServiceMix](http://servicemix.apache.org/home.html): Agile open-source ESB (JBI Container)
 * [Apache Tuscany](http://tuscany.apache.org): SCA based component aggregation framework.
 * [Intalio BPMS](http://bpms.intalio.com/): a full open source BPMS solution including a [BPMN designer](http://www.intalio.com/products/designer/), runtime components and tooling.
 * [SUPER](http://ip-super.org/): Integrated EU research project, aiming to raise BPM to the business level, where it belongs, from the IT level where it mostly resides now.
 * [GASwerk](http://gaswerk.sourceforge.net/): pre-packaged SOA, JMS and Spring stacks based on the Geronimo application server.
 * [JBoss RiftSaw](http://www.jboss.org/riftsaw): Apache ODE optimized for the JBoss Application Server container.
 * [WSO2 Business Process Server](http://wso2.com/products/business-process-server/)

## Useful Tools

 * [Apache Axis2](http://ws.apache.org/axis2/): Web service stack
 * [SoapUI](http://www.soapui.org): Free and open source desktop application for inspecting, invoking, developing, simulating/mocking and functional/load/compliance testing of web services.
 * [Eclipse BPEL designer](http://www.eclipse.org/bpel/).
 * [ObjectWeb Lomboz(TM)](http://lomboz.objectweb.org) is built on top of the Eclipse BPEL designer and offers additional options like an embedded server and easy deployment (see http://lomboz.objectweb.org/bpel_demo.html for a demo)
 * [Apache ODE Tomcat Bundle](https://github.com/vanto/apache-ode-tomcat-bundle): Build script that creates a fully configured bundle with Tomcat 7, Apache ODE, Hibernate and Bitronix.

## Articles

 * [SOA auf die leichte Art (german)](http://javamagazin.de/itr/online_artikel/psecom,id,915,nodeid,11.html)
 * [An Introduction to Apache ODE](http://www.infoq.com/articles/paul-brown-ode)
 * [Develop and execute WS-BPEL V2.0 business processes using the Eclipse BPEL plug-in](http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-eclipse-bpel2.0/)
 * [Execute business processes with Eclipse and Apache ODE](http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/edu/os-dw-os-eclipse-stpatlode.html)
 * Open Source BPEL Orchestra (german) - [Part 1](http://taval.de/JM_1.2010_Moser_vanLessen_Luebke_BPEL1.pdf), [Part 2](http://taval.de/JM_2.2010_Luebke_Moser_van_Lessen_BPEL2.pdf), [Part 3](http://taval.de/JM_3.2010_van_Lessen_Luebke_Moser_BPEL3.pdf)

## Important specifications

 * [BPEL4WS 1.1](ftp://www6.software.ibm.com/software/developer/library/ws-bpel.pdf) (pdf) and [WS-BPEL 2.0](http://docs.oasis-open.org/wsbpel/2.0/wsbpel-v2.0.html)specifications.
 * [WSDL 1.1](http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl)
 * [XPath 1.0](http://web5.w3.org/TR/xpath) and [XPath 2.0](http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/)
 * [ECMAScript for XML (E4X) Specification](http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-357.htm) (can be used in BPEL extensions)

## Professional Services

Here is a list of companies providing professional services around Apache ODE. This includes consulting, support, training, products (sorted in alphabetical order):

 * [TouK](http://touk.pl), Warsaw, Poland -- Consulting, Apache ServiceMix Integration