BPEL4People
BPEL4People has been developed to provide extensive support for human interactions in BPEL processes and to standardize the human interactions. Originally, the BPEL4People specification was defined by IBM and SAP. Other companies, such as Oracle, Active Endpoints, and Adobe have also joined. Today, this specification has being advanced within the OASIS BPEL4People Technical Committee. The BPEL4People specification contains two parts:
BPEL4People version 1.0, which introduces BPEL extensions to address human interactions in BPEL
Web Services Human Task (WS-HumanTask) version 1.0 introduces the definition of human tasks
BPEL4People is defined in a way that it is layered on top of the BPEL language. We will now have a brief look at the WS-HumanTask and then at the BPEL4People.
Brief look at WS-HumanTask
The WS-HumanTask specification introduces Human Tasks to BPEL. Human Tasks are services, implemented by humans. A Human Task has two interfaces. One interface exposes the service...
