The idea and motivation behind almost each new technology and platform for enterprise application development is to provide an environment where better business applications can be developed with less ...

BPEL (Business Process Execution Language) has become one of the most important technologies of SOA (service-oriented architecture) and enables easy and flexible composition of services into business ...

Breaking down business processes into Web services components was the easy part. Weaving them together into manageable, useful services has proved more ambitious. XML-based business process languages ...