Apache ODE is a web service orchestration engine implementing the Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) standard. What's behind this sentence? What exactly is orchestration and what are the benefits? How can it help you develop your applications? And what the BPEL standard is good and bad for?
This is the first in a series of blog posts aimed at documenting whats involved in setting up a performance test harness from scratch. In my next post, I will show how to deploy these performance tests using Maven 2 and how to automate the process using Bamboo