Abstract

A business process (BP for short) consists of a group of business activities undertaken by one or more organizations in pursuit of some particular goal. It usually operates in a cross-organization, distributed environment and the software implementing it is fairly complex. Standards facilitate the design, deployment, and execution of BPs. In particular, the recent BPEL standard (Business Process Execution Language), provides an XML-based language to describe the interface between the participants in a process, as well as the full operational logic of the process and its execution flow. BPEL specifications are automatically compiled into executable code that implements the described BP and runs on a BPEL application server. Processes execution is traced, and their run-time behavior can be recorded in standard XML formats.

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