Key BPM Acronymns


BPM is rife with three-letter acronyms (or TLAs). The following list decodes some of the most important terms.

ACID

Atomic, Consistent, Isolated, Durable; the properties of a transaction



AWSP

Asynchronous Web Services Protocol



B2B

Business-to-Business



BAM

Business Activity Monitoring



BEIDTF

Business Enterprise Integration Domain Task Force



BPD

Business Process Diagram



BPDM

Business Process Definition Metamodel



BPEL4WS

Business Process Execution Language for Web Services; from the OASIS group



BPELJ

BPEL for Java



BPM

Business Process Modeling, sometimes called Business Process Management



BPDM

Business Process Definition Metamodel



BPML

Business Process Modeling Language



BPMN

Business Process Modeling Notation; another specification from BPMI



BPMI

Business Process Modeling Initiative; an organization, not a specification



BPRI

Business Process Runtime Interface



BPQL

Business Process Query Language



BPSM

Business Process Semantic Model



BPSS

Business Process Specification System



BPXL

Business Process Extension Layers



BRM

Business Rules Management



BSBR

Business Semantics of Business Rules



CORBA

Common Object Request Broker Architecture



CWM

Common Warehouse Metamodel



CWAD

Common workflow audit data



EAI

Enterprise Application Integration



ebXML

Electronic business XML



EDOC

Enterprise Distributed Object Computing



EJBs

Enterprise JavaBeans



ER

Entity-relationship



ESB

Enterprise Service Bus



ETTK

Emerging Technologies Toolkit; from IBM



J2EE

Java 2 Enterprise Edition



JAWE

Java Workflow editor; from Enhydra



JCA

Java Connector Architecture



JDBC

Java Database Connectivity



JMS

Java Messaging Service



JMX

Java Management Extensions



JSP

Java Server Pages



LRT

Long-running transaction



MDA

Model-Driven Architecture



MOF

Meta-Object Facility



OASIS

Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards



OMG

Object Management Group



OO

Object-Oriented



OR

Object-Relational



OSM

Organization Structure Metamodel



POJOs

Plain Old Java Objects



PD4J

Process Definition for Java



PKI

Public Key Infrastructure



PRR

Production Rule Representation



RFPs

Requests for Proposals



SOA

Service-oriented Architecture



SOAP

Simple Object Access Protocol



UDDI

Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration



UML

Unified Modeling Language



UUID

Universally unique identifier



WAPI

Workflow API



WfMC

Workflow Management Coalition



WfXML

Workflow XML



WSBPEL

Web Services Business Process Execution Language



WSCI

Web Services Choreography Interface



WSCL

Web Services Conversation Language



WS-CDL

Web Services Choreography Description Language



WSDL

Web Services Definition Language



WSFL

IBM's Web Services Flow Language



W3C

World Wide Web Consortium



XLANG

XML Language



XMI

XML Metadata Interchange



XPDL

XML Process Definition Language





    Essential Business Process Modeling
    Essential Business Process Modeling
    ISBN: 0596008430
    EAN: 2147483647
    Year: 2003
    Pages: 122
    Authors: Michael Havey

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