1. Abstract

The main goal of this tutorial is to produce a sample web service for a travel agency portal that will be consumed by visitors looking for travel-related information, the web service will return travel costs, destination weather and any more available information.

To provide such service, we need to call a bunch of fine grained web services via a web service orchestration engine using a standardized language called BPEL "Business Process Execution Language".

Zero line coding...

In this tutorial we're not going to write any line of code, we will use a powerful BPEL Designer to build the process only by Drag-n-Drop actions (thanks to Netbeans BPEL Designer).

The figure below is an overall description about how BPEL orchestration works.
Using a BPEL Designer, a Business expert will produce a Process flow that will be executed with a BPEL Engine (application side - Sun BPEL engine).



During this first part of the tutorial, we'll get the focus on the basics:

• Installing Glassfish ESB on a remote Linux server (headless mode)
• Adding the SOA Plugin to your Netbeans
• Integrating the Glassfish ESB with the Netbeans IDE
  

Let's start !!

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