Business Process Query Language (BPQL) is a management interface to a business process management infrastructure that includes a process execution facility (process server) and a process deployment facility (process repository).
On June 29, 2005, the Business Process Management Initiative and the Object Management Group announced the merger of their Business Process Management (BPM) activities. The combined activities will continue BPMI's and OMG's work and focus on Business Process Management, including:
- Refinement and promotion of BPMI's Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) as the basis for business modeling
- Delivery of OMG's Business Process Definition Metamodel (BPDM)
- Business language, vocabulary, and rules
- BIM (Business Information Management)
- EAI (Enterprise Application Integration)
- B2B (Business to Business collaboration)
- Web Services Information and Processes
- Security Policy and Management
- Refinement, promotion and education of the principles, approaches and tenets of Business Process Management within the broader business community
The June 29 announcement also stated that the OMG will continue integrating and reusing complementary business integration and Web services standards such as WS-BPEL from OASIS, WSDL and XML Schema from W3C.
More information: OMG website (new window).
More on the general topic: Workflow
- Business Centric Methodology (BCM)
- Business Process Execution Language (BPEL)
- Business Process Specification Schema (BPSS)
- Business Transaction Protocol (BTP)
- Collaboration Protocol Profile/Agreement (CPP/A)
- Common Alerting Protocol (CAP)
- Content Assembly Mechanism (CAM)
- Partner Interface Process (PIP)
- RosettaNet Implementation Framework (RNIF)
- Web Services Flow Language (WSFL)
- Wf-XML
- WS Choreography Description Language (CDL)
- XLANG