Business Process Execution Language
| Web Services Business Process Execution Language | |
| Abbreviation | WS-BPEL or BPEL | 
|---|---|
| Status | Published | 
| Year started | 2001 | 
| First published | April 2003 | 
| Latest version | 2.0 11 April 2007 | 
| Organization | OASIS | 
| Committee | OASIS Web Services Business Process Execution Language (WSBPEL) TC | 
| Base standards | XML | 
| Domain | Web service integration | 
| Website | docs | 
The Web Services Business Process Execution Language (WS-BPEL), commonly known as BPEL (Business Process Execution Language), is an OASIS standard executable language for specifying actions within business processes with web services. Processes in BPEL export and import information by using web service interfaces exclusively.