Life after BPEL?

  • Authors:
  • W. M. P. van der Aalst;M. Dumas;A. H. M. ter Hofstede;N. Russell;H. M. W. Verbeek;P. Wohed

  • Affiliations:
  • Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands;Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia;Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia;Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia;Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands;Université Henri Poincaré, Nancy, France

  • Venue:
  • EPEW'05/WS-FM'05 Proceedings of the 2005 international conference on European Performance Engineering, and Web Services and Formal Methods, international conference on Formal Techniques for Computer Systems and Business Processes
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

The Business Process Execution Language for Web Services (BPEL) has emerged as a standard for specifying and executing processes. It is supported by vendors such as IBM and Microsoft and positioned as the “process language of the Internet”. This paper provides a critical analysis of BPEL based on the so-called workflow patterns. It also discusses the need for languages like BPEL. Finally, the paper addresses several challenges not directly addressed by BPEL but highly relevant to the support of web services.