XLANG is a notation for the automation of business processes based on Web Services for the specification of message exchange behavior among participating Web Services. XLANG is expected to serve as the basis for automated protocol engines that can track the state of process instances and help enforce protocol correctness in message flows.
Organization: Microsoft
More information: XLANG page on the .Net Framework Community website (new window)
More on the general topic: Workflow
- Business Centric Methodology (BCM)
- Business Process Execution Language (BPEL)
- Business Process Query Language (BPQL)
- 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)