Late last week, IBM and Microsoft published two more seminal Web services specifications--WS-Coordination and WS-Transactions--which will together establish a common business process framework for B2B interaction. For process management app development, IBM's Web Services Flow Language (WSFL) and Microsoft's XML Language (XLang) will also be merged into the Business Process Execution Language for Web Services, creating BPEL4WS, which may be the most ridiculous acronym yet. Steven VanRoekel, director of Web services technical marketing for Microsoft, hopes that the industry will embrace this new trio of specs "as the standard way of doing business-to-business communications."
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