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Object Modeling Your Data
Published in Cliff Wootton, Developing Quality Metadata, 2009
Web Service Composition Languages (WSCL) are emerging to describe how a webbased system will operate on data being passed to it: Business Process Execution Language (BPEL).Yet Another Workflow Language (YAWL).Business Process Modeling Language (BPML).Web Services Flow Language (WSFL).Web Services Description Language (WSDL).XLANG—Extended WSDL.Semantic Web Services Language (SWSL).XML Process Definition Language (XPDL).
Process Architecture
Published in Vivek Kale, Enterprise Process Management Systems, 2018
Once the workflow process model has been designed, the process definition tool creates an output of the model using a process definition language. The generic format included in the WRM is the Workflow Process Definition Language (WPDL). The goal of the WPDL standard is to achieve interoperability of process models created using different process definition tool. As long as a workflow engine supports WPDL, that workflow engine can enact any workflow process model created using WPDL. In 2002, an XML form of the WPDL was published by the WfMC called XPDL. As a process definition language, XPDL contains process definition semantics that are understood by XPDL-compliant workflow engines.
Business Process Management: Definitions, Concepts, and Methodologies
Published in John Footen, Joey Faust, The Service-Oriented Media Enterprise, 2012
Because of this movement toward BPMN, there have been a number of efforts to find a good way to import and export BPMN models from one enterprise to another. Perhaps the most promising at the time of this writing is the XML Process Definition Language (XPDL), which is an XML-based way to represent a BPMN process. That definition may seem very similar to the definition of BPEL, but instead of focusing on execution and service partners, XPDL simply focuses on turning a graphical representation of a process into exchangeable text. It is much simpler and more focused than BPEL, and can perfectly describe a BPMN model.
Towards a knowledge base to support global change policy goals
Published in International Journal of Digital Earth, 2020
Stefano Nativi, Mattia Santoro, Gregory Giuliani, Paolo Mazzetti
Workflows can be formalized using standard representations like the Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN).12 This notation allows expressing abstract processes ranging from the full Workflow to the single scientific model. BPMN, introduced by the Business Process Management Initiative (BPMI), is a formal (and graphical) process notation. The objective of BPMN is to support business process management, for both technical users and business users, by providing a notation that is intuitive to business users, yet able to represent complex process semantics. The BPMN specification also provides a mapping between the graphics of the notation and the underlying constructs of execution languages, particularly Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) by OASIS.13 Presently, the specification is standardized by the OMG (Object Management Group),14 endorsed by WfMC, and broadly adopted across the industry. BPMN 2.015 (released in Jan 2011) introduced the ability to serialize process models and diagrams. The XPDL standard from WfMC covers how to store and interchange process definitions. For example, XPDL16 provides a file format that supports every aspect of the BPMN process definition notation including graphical descriptions of the diagram, as well as executable properties used at run time.