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Charter for OASIS Web Services Business Process Execution Language (WS-BPEL) Adoption Committee

Overview

The OASIS Web Services Business Process Execution Language (WS-BPEL) Adoption Committee members will collaborate to provide expertise and resources to educate the marketplace on the value of the WS-BPEL OASIS Standard. By raising awareness of the benefits offered by WS-BPEL, the Committee increases the demand for and availability of WS-BPEL conforming products, resulting in a greater choice of tools and platforms and expanding the WS-BPEL community of users, suppliers, and developers.

Name

The OASIS Web Services Business Process Execution Language (WS-BPEL) Adoption Committee

Historical Background

The OASIS WS-BPEL Technical Committee was formed in 2003 to enable users to describe business process activities as Web services and define how they can be connected to accomplish specific tasks. See http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ wsbpel/.

Statement of Purpose

The purpose of the OASIS WS-BPEL Adoption Committee is to create awareness and demand for applications and solutions designed specifically to support and leverage WS-BPEL in the marketplace. The Committee will dedicate its energy and resources to create wide-scale understanding of the benefits of WS-BPEL use within organizations through education and promotion.

By advancing the adoption of WS-BPEL within OASIS, the Committee members:

1. Collaborate within the security of the OASIS open process;

2. Maximize message credibility by working on behalf of a vendor-neutral standards consortium;

3. Build on existing market awareness of OASIS as the source of WS-BPEL;

4. Leverage the combined resources of all participants;

5. Reinforce WS-BPEL as the result of an open, transparent process guided by multiple vendors, communities and individuals; and

6. Openly share content, and coordinate program execution with other entities that share a common or similar statement of purpose on a worldwide scope.

Working together, members of the OASIS WS-BPEL Adoption Committee will provide expertise and resources to educate the marketplace on the value of the WS-BPEL OASIS Standard, increasing the demand for WS-BPEL conforming products, and expanding the WS-BPEL community and marketplace of users, suppliers, and developers.

Scope of work

OASIS Adoption Committees activities may extend to any of the following activities:

1. Oversee an XML.org community web site (Focus Area)

2. Record or address any errata raised regarding WS-BPEL

3. Stage interoperability and/or proof-of-concept demonstrations at industry conferences

4. Host educational, vendor-neutral webinars

5. Stage vendor-neutral workshops and tracks at OASIS events and other conferences

6. Produce OASIS-branded primer, white papers, position papers, slide presentations, datasheets, and other collateral

7. Develop best practice guidelines

8. Assist in coordinating press and analyst relations such as briefings, releases, and announcements

9. Establish liaisons with other organizations, government agencies, trade groups

10. Assist in coordinating promotional efforts of members, leveraging activities wherever beneficial

11. Encourage and coordinate volunteer efforts to translate the standard into other languages

12. Establish certification programs

13. Develop conformance suites

14. Interface with other TCs to define how standards can be used together to address specific scenarios

15. Other projects aimed at increasing adoption as identified by Committee members

This Committee will consist of volunteers from member organizations and will conduct teleconferences and occasional face-to-face meetings.

List of Deliverables

Anticipated deliverables with target delivery dates include:

1. Updates to WS-BPEL OASIS Standard Primer as appropriate

2. BPEL XML.org Focus Area (2Q/2007), an online community web site, which will provide educational information and links to materials created by this Committee, as well as links to other third-party resources. Registered users will be able to freely post BPEL-related news, events,product listings, blogs, and forums.

3. White papers (3Q/2007)

4. Position papers (3Q/2007)?

5. Case studies (4Q/2007)

6. Showcase/InterOp Presentations (3Q/2007) or Proof-of-Concept demo scenarios and templates (4Q/2007)

7. Webinars ?

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Anticipated Audience/Users

We anticipate the work of the OA SIS WS-BPEL Adoption Committee will be used by a number of groups to learn more about Business Process Execution Language:

--End users

--Corporate and governmental decision-makers

--Software developers

--Media and industry analysts

Language in which the Committee will conduct business

The Committee will conduct its business in English.

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