Sources:
- Go Flow : The BPMN-XPDL-BPEL value chain by Keith Swenson
- BPM Think Tank Day 2: Panel on Business Value of Process Standards by Sandy Kemsley
- BPM Think Tank Day 3: XPDL technology roundtable by Sandy Kemsley
Swenson [Fujitsu] came back to the issue of XPDL versus BPEL, which he doesn't see as competing. XPDL is about process design, about serializing and saving what you drew in BPMN, and not so much about execution. He sees XPDL as a way of moving a process from one design/simulation/analysis tool to another (about 30 tools support it today), whereas BPEL is about the nuts and bolts of sending messages from one location/service/system to another. As Evdemon [Microsoft] said, XPDL is like XMI for business processes. Swenson states that XPDL will continue to track and adjust to any changes to BPMN.
