BPEL PM 10.1.3.1 - new features part 2

I thought to blog on three really cool new features - that we have put a lot of work into, to provide even greater development/deployment- and runtime-experience in our upcoming 10.1.3.1 BPEL PM version

• Human Workflow
  
  
  
  • Evolving the wizard driven approach to a single page for all configuration
  
  
  • More adHoc capabilities, such as delegation, and reassignment, based on the role
  
  
  • Frontend can be not just a JSP but also a word document
  
  
  • Great enhanced User interface, including a (one or more) workqueue(s), and shared queues
  
  
  • Out of office (vacational) rules
  
  
  • Notifications have been improved, specially actionable emails
  
  

• Deployment and adminstration
  
  
  
  • Clustered deployment becomes a lot easier, as the cluster will take care of the shared deployment, process artifacts are stored in the db
  
  
  • Ant based compilation and deployment, with user hooks to replace variables e.g hostname, port ..
  
  

• Integration of a Service Registry
  
  
  
  • Discovery of services in the UDDI straight out of JDeveloper
  
  
  • Dynamic lookup of endpoints/concrete WSDLs at runtime, therfor real loosely coupling
  
  

A preview of most of the new features can be found on our BPEL PM webinar site here