"The Business Process Modeling Language (BPML) specification provides an abstract model for expressing business processes and supporting entities. BPML defines a formal model for expressing abstract and executable processes that address all aspects of enterprise business processes, including activities of varying complexity, transactions and their compensation, data management, concurrency, exception handling and operational semantics. BPML also provides a grammar in the form of an XML Schema for enabling the persistence and interchange of definitions across heterogeneous systems and modeling tools." (from the specification) 1 Formalism transactional finite-state machine 1.1 State Transitions {image:BPML-activity-state-transitions.png} 1 Related - [BPEL4WS] - [WSCI] 1 Links - {link:Specification|http://www.bpmi.org/bpml-spec.htm} - {link:Business Process Management Initiative|http://www.bpmi.org} - {link:BPEL4WS and BPML|http://www.bpmi.org/downloads/BPML-BPEL4WS.pdf} 2005-07-07 09:40:37.283 2004-10-18 11:15:50.684 Thu Jul 07 09:38:24 UTC 2005