http://websphere.sys-con.com/ Latest articles from BJ Grau en Copyright 2008 SYS-CON Media SYS-CON Media Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:05:59 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss 10 http://websphere.sys-con.com/node/118311 Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) is a non-proprietary, XML-based language developed by a group of major vendors including IBM, BEA, and Microsoft. Its function is to describe how Web Services interact with one another to form workflow systems that implement business processes. As a model and grammar for describing this behavior, it lets you implement complex processes by creating and wiring together different activities such as invoking a service, manipulating data, throwing faults, or terminating processes. With BPEL you can take a structured top-down approach to implementing a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA).<p><a href="http://websphere.sys-con.com/node/118311" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Wed, 17 Aug 2005 13:00:00 EDT http://websphere.sys-con.com/node/118311