Business Process Execution Language (BPEL)

Business Process Execution Language (BPEL)¹  defines a notation for specifying business process behavior based on Web Services. Business processes can be described in two ways:

BPEL is used to model the behavior of both executable and abstract processes. The scope includes:

Organization: OASIS

More information: BPEL page on the OASIS Web site (new window)

¹Formerly Business Process Execution Language for Web Services (BPEL4WS)

More on the general topic: Workflow
	Business Centric Methodology (BCM)
	Business Process Query Language (BPQL)
	Business Process Specification Schema (BPSS)
	Common Alerting Protocol (CAP)
	Business Transaction Protocol (BTP)
	Collaboration Protocol Profile/Agreement (CPP/A)
	Content Assembly Mechanism (CAM)
	RosettaNet Implementation Framework (RNIF)
	Partner Interface Process (PIP)
	Web Services Flow Language (WSFL)
	Wf-XML
	WS Choreography Description Language (CDL)
	XLANG

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