About WS-BPEL

The WS-BPEL stands for Web Services Business Process Execution Language. It is an XML-based language for formally describing business processes and business interaction protocols.

WS-BPEL 2.0 was approved as an OASIS Standard in April 2007. It defines a model and a grammar for describing the behavior of a business process based on interactions between the process and its partners. The interaction with each partner occurs through Web services interfaces. The WS-BPEL process defines how multiple service interactions with these partners are coordinated to achieve a business goal, as well as the state and the logic necessary for this coordination.

Read more: http://bpel.xml.org/about-bpel

You can Find the BPEL specification at http://docs.oasis-open.org/wsbpel/2.0/wsbpel-v2.0.html 


In one of my Next Post, I am going to describe some key concepts in BPEL.

Developing WS-BPEL Processes using WSO2 Carbon Studio.

Business Process Execution Language or WS-BPEL lets people orchestrate tasks and activities exposed as Web services. WSO2 Business Process Server can execute process descriptions written in WS-BPEL. Since BPEL is structured and based on XML, it is now far easier for business users to model and execute business processes using open source graphical tools like Eclipse BPEL Designer. This tutorial describes how to Develop a WS-BPEL Processes using WSO2 Carbon Studio.



Read full tutorial at: http://wso2.org/library/tutorials/2011/04/using-carbon-studio-model-wsbpel-process-using-bpel-editor