I’ve finally got round to reading this article on developerWorks. Things of interest that caught my eye:

  • There are some changes to the BPC Explorer such as more meaningful column names etc - worth knowing about as it has user impact.
  • Install time is supposed to be 1/3 what it was. Hurrah!
  • Maximum business object sizes for various deployment platforms are stated in the document as follows - “In a 64-bit environment the maximum size is now 500MB, while 32-bit UNIX systems can handle 100MB objects. Windows has a limit of 50MB due to the smaller heap size.“
  • Cyclic flow activity - the ability to loop back to previous points in a process was a real pain in the past on a project I worked on, and this new BPEL extension makes this easier. It is an extension though, so needs to be used with caution I guess.

In general the feel of it is that IBM are gradually adding some of the capabilities there are available in MQ Workflow and Interchange Server, but which were too low down the priority stack for inclusion in a previous release.