Clarification from Oasis - on BPXL

Reported by CBROnline:

From Oasis --

...in an interview with ComputerWire late last week, OASIS president and CEO Patrick Gannon said that BPXL would complement BPEL, and in no way conflict with it. He said BPEL was never intended to solve every issue in process management: "The charter for the [BPEL] work was laid out very explicitly; it was very clear what the work would be," said Gannon.

"It was not designed to solve all of the problems in the process management space. We are focusing on the core specification first, then we will later produce extensions or profiles, which will be voted on," he said. "We will take input from a variety of areas."

And from BPMI.org --

Meanwhile Jeanne Baker, chair of BPMI.org, also insisted that the BPXL work is in no way intended to derail or rival BPEL: "We endorse BPEL and we endorse OASIS," said Baker. "The industry needs a single standard, not a confusion of standards." But she added that BPMI.org's planned Business Process eXtension Layers (BPXL) standard will add capabilities not inherent in BPEL.

Hope that brings some order !