"As further proof that open source technologies are bleeding
into the mainstream, start-up Active Endpoints has hatched a
Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) initiative and submitted
core technology under the GNU General Public License (GPL).
"Shelton, Conn.-based Active Endpoints Monday announced the
formation of ActiveBPEL, LLC, an open source subsidiary whose goal
is to stimulate interest in, and educate the industry about,
BPEL.
"BPEL is a language for specifying business-process behavior
based on Web services, a popular distributed computing model for
allowing software applications to communicate with one
another..."
