ALSO CALLED: Business Process Execution Language for Web Services, BPEL4WS, and Business Process Execution Language DEFINITION: BPEL (Business Process Execution Language) for Web services is an XML-based language designed to enable task-sharing for a distributed computing or grid computing environment - even across multiple organizations - using a combination of Web services. Written by
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BPEL DEFINITION (continued): … developers from BEA Systems, IBM, and Microsoft, BPEL combines and replaces IBM's WebServices Flow Language (WSFL) and Microsoft's XLANG specification. (BPEL is also sometimes identified as BPELWS or BPEL4WS.)
Using BPEL, a programmer formally describes a business process that will take place across the Web in such a way that any cooperatingentity can perform one or more steps in the process the same way. In a supply chain process, for example, a BPEL program might describe a business protocol … BPEL definition sponsored by SearchSOA.com, powered by WhatIs.com an online computer dictionary
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