IBM, Microsoft Corp. and BEA Systems Inc. are on tap to submit the Business Processing Execution Language for Web Services (BPEL4WS) specification to the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Systems (OASIS), marking yet another standard for orchestrating Web services. Sources said the specification is all but in the hands of OASIS, except for a formal announcement. An OASIS spokeswoman did not respond to eWEEK attempts for comment on the issue.

BPEL4WS, announced last year, is a platform for executing business processes so they can be more easily reused and integrated with other processes. The specification is the result of blending two specifications from IBM and Microsoft into one. BPEL4WS features workflow standards including those involving process definition, and it enables simple execution of those processes in a Web services environment, officials of the companies said.

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