BPEL Moves to the BPI Forefront

摘要

Breaking down business processes into Web services components was the easy part. Weaving them together into manageable, useful services has proved more ambitious. XML-based business process languages have emerged to manage these event-driven architectures. Now IBM and Oracle have elevated the standing of BPEL4WS (Business Process Execution Language for Web Services, or BPEL for short), granting the language a seat in the core of both companies' new process servers: the Oracle BPEL-PM (BPEL Process Manager) 2.0 and the WBISF (WebSphere Business Integration Server Foundation) 5.1.