A detailed survey of current BPM standard models and specifications, including: BPEL; the BPMI standards (BPMN and BPEL) and the BPMI reference architecture; the WfMC standards (XPDL, WfXML, WAPI) and the WfMC reference model; web services choreography, its standards (WS-CDL, WSCI, WSCL), and the distinction between choreography and orchestration; the OMG model-driven architecture for BPM, and its RFPs for BPDM and BPRI; BPSS and collaboration; and the influence of XLANG and WSFL on BPEL.
Chapter 5: Business Process Execution Language (BPEL)
Chapter 6: BPMI Standards: BPMN and BPML
Chapter 7: The Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC)
Chapter 8: World Wide Web Consortium (W3C): Choreography
Chapter 9: Other BPM Models
