Standards body OASIS has launched a new web services
website to supportservice-orientated architecture (SOA)
deployments.
The XML.org site is sponsored by BEA Systems and IBM and is
dedicated to supporting the Web Services Business Process Execution
Language (WS-BPEL) standard.
The site serves as the
official information resource for the WS-BPEL OASIS Standard, which
provides a method for formally describing business processes and
business interaction protocols using web services.
"BPEL has become an important standard for
service-oriented architectures," said Ed Cobb, vice-president
of emerging technology and standards at BEA. "OASIS has created
this site as a way to enable users, developers and suppliers from
around the world to share information and learn from one
another."