Business Process Query Language (BPQL)

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:

bulletRefinement and promotion of BPMI's Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) as the basis for business modeling
bulletDelivery of OMG's Business Process Definition Metamodel (BPDM)
bulletBusiness language, vocabulary, and rules
bulletBIM (Business Information Management)
bulletEAI (Enterprise Application Integration)
bulletB2B (Business to Business collaboration)
bulletWeb Services Information and Processes
bulletSecurity Policy and Management
bulletRefinement, 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 Web site (new window).

 

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