Business Process Modeling Language

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Business Process Modeling Language (BPML) is an Extensible Markup Language (XML)-based metalanguage developed by the Business Process Management Initiative (BPMI) as a means of modeling business processes, much as XML is, itself, a metalanguage with the ability to model enterprise data. BPML 0.4 is BPMI's first release, and includes specifications for transactions and compensating transactions, dataflow, messages and scheduled events, business rules, security roles, and exceptions. BPMI has identified three crucial aspects of BPML capability: because it will be used for mission critical applications, it must support both synchronous and asynchronous distributed transactions; because it will model business processes deployed over the Internet, it must offer reliable security mechanisms; and because it will be used t

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An associated query language, Business Process Query Language (BPQL) has been developed by Initiative members as a standard management interface that can be used to deploy and execute defined business processes. According to BPMI, BPML and BPQL will be used to establish a standardized means of managing e-business processes through Business Process Management Systems, similarly to the way that SQL established a standardized means of managing business data through packaged database management systems (DBMSs). Both BPML and BPQL are open specifications. The first draft of the BPML specification was submitted to BPMI members in August of 2000, and subsequently made publicly available in March 2001; the first BPQL draft is to be be made available by the end of 2001. The organization intends to continue to develop and promote open standards specific to particular e-business needs.

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