Relation of BPEL to Other Languages

BPEL is not the only language for business process management and modeling. Before we start discussing the technical aspects of BPEL let us overview the relation of BPEL to other languages. Recently, several languages have been proposed, including:

  • XLANG and the new version XLANG/s from Microsoft
  • BPML (Business Process Modeling Language) from BPMI.org, the Business Process Management Initiative
  • WSFL (Web Services Flow Language) from IBM
  • WSCL (Web Services Conversation Language) from HP, submitted to W3C
  • BPSS (Business Process Specification Schema), part of the ebXML framework
  • WSCI (Web Services Choreography Interface), co-developed by Sun, SAP, BEA, and Intalio and submitted to W3C
  • WS-CDL (Web Services Choreography ...

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