BPEL expands to Business Process Execution Language. BPEL is an essential tool in the SOA world to achieve the Business Process Orchestration. It is a very thin and light-weight XML-based language that can be used to accomplish the Process Orchestration. BPEL uses Web Services exposed from different business applications and information systems (through technology adapters) to achieve the Process Orchestration.
OASIS drafted BPEL standards by working closely with various industry-leading companies such as IBM, Oracle, Amber Point, SAP, SOA Systems, iWay Software, and so on. It is predicted that BPEL will be the next widely used language in most Enterprises after Java. In Oracle SOA Suite 11g, Oracle BPEL Process Manager is integrated to Oracle SCA Runtime. This helps the Oracle SCA runtime to integrate the various Oracle SOA Components together to accomplish some very interesting tasks. Oracle BPEL Process Manager, introduced in 10g, is now integrated...