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 ...

Officials from BEA Systems and Oracle this week waged a war of words over BPEL (Business Process Execution Language), the Web services-based specification for orchestration of processes in SOAs.

Computerworld QuickStudies It would be possible to hammer out Java code or a set of Unix scripts that could manage a series of processes—such as the steps taken by an insurance broker running a series ...