IT industry, the larger Hengda is to win the status of the same industry-standard law. Hundred schools of thought contend the Warring States era, we all want to become the mainstream industry standards, in order to obtain final victory, the standard of small organizations will gradually attachment to the ISO and the fight for the recognition of these organizations. Through the power of large organizations to small organizations implement the standards implementation of the world, will be able to attract more users, dominate the market formation of internationally recognized standards and specifications is no longer only.
For example, Microsoft and IBM introduced their own processes and standards XLANG WSFL (Web Service Flow Language). But in 2002 two large cooperation in a new specifications BPEL4WS, and OASIS standards organization to submit proposals to the report, was also the last OASIS recognized standards. Oracle and Sun Micro cooperation between the manufacturers camp in order to promote WSCI, the standards will be sent to the W3C, and have participated in the W3C Choreography Working Group. At the same time business process managementI organizations also are to study business process standards OMG proposal that OMG direct them to adopt the standards or is about to set out with the OMG standards can be compared.
From many indications that, at present is clearly more BPEL prevail. For example, WFMC held in Italy in the General Assembly of the technology, the participating manufacturers talking about the focus from the previous business process managementN (Business Process Modeling Notation by business process managementI) transferred to BPEL. SAP and Intalio in support of WSCI, it also decided to support the OASIS BPEL. Siebel, 20, including several manufacturers plan to adopt BPEL. In addition, Oracle in the Java One this year published a BPEL-based process modeling tools (Modeling Tool) and workflow automation software.
At the same time we can also observed some interesting phenomenon: the vendors at the same time in different Union supports two incompatible standards. Therefore, an increasing number of business process management products can support multiple business process language standards, so products in order to avoid a complex and a separate faction in the standards become isolated islands.
But this is not no solution, because the camp is also a big potential reconciliation for the complementarity between the standards and interoperability, minimize differences, and avoid the two sets of incompatible standards. Such as Sun Microsystems and Oracle by OASIS BPEL participate in the meeting, the working group trying to promote the W3C and OASIS cooperation between the two resolved to repeat the standard. Oracle has formally joined the OASIS BPEL Technical Committee, Sun is also interested in joining the technical committee. IBM, Oracle, BEA, Sun Microsystems and with the WFMC business process managementI members, but IBM, BEA and Microsoft are also actively promote BPEL.
In the end, what criteria will win a business process management It is difficult to say.
