The Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) is an emerging industry standard for achieving a degree of interoperability among business rules engines. The original specification, known as BPEL4WS (Business Process Execution Language for Web Services), was published in August 2002.

See bpel.xml.org and www.oasis-open.org for more information on this specification, sometimes called WS-BPEL.

Process Commander supports both connectors and services for BPEL. These operate in conjunction with SOAP connectors and services to interconnect a flow with an external business process.

You can convert an XML file representing a BPEL process rule into a similar flow rule automatically using the rule harvest wizard. See About the Rule from File wizard.

Conversely, you can create a BPEL representation of a flow rule directly from the Design tab of the Flow form. See Flow rules — Completing the Design tab.

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