As most readers are probably aware, the Web Services-Business Process
Execution Language (WS-BPEL) provides a broadly adopted process orchestration
standard supported by many vendors today and used to define business
processes that orchestrate services, systems, and people into end-to-end
business processes and composite applications. However, in many ways BPEL's
adoption has gotten ahead of the formal standardization process.
The BPEL4WS 1.1 specification was submitted to OASIS back in 2004 and after
three years of work by one of the largest technical committees at OASIS,
WS-BPEL 2.0 finally became an OASIS standard on April 12, 2007. While
adoption of the BPEL language has not been gated by the 2.0 standard or the
OASIS stamp of approval - there are thousands of succes... (more)