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schema-version: v1.2.8
id: OASISbpel4people-v1.1-CS01
title:
- content: WS-BPEL Extension for People (BPEL4People) Specification Version 1.1
  language:
  - en
  script:
  - Latn
  format: text/plain
  type: main
link:
- content: http://docs.oasis-open.org/bpel4people/bpel4people-1.1-spec-cs-01.html
  type: src
- content: http://docs.oasis-open.org/bpel4people/bpel4people-1.1-spec-cs-01.pdf
  type: pdf
- content: http://docs.oasis-open.org/bpel4people/bpel4people-1.1-spec-cs-01.html
  type: src
type: standard
docid:
- id: OASIS bpel4people-v1.1-CS01
  type: OASIS
  primary: true
docnumber: bpel4people-v1.1-CS01
date:
- type: issued
  value: '2010-08-17'
contributor:
- organization:
    name:
    - content: OASIS
    contact:
    - uri: https://www.oasis-open.org/
  role:
  - description:
    - content: Standards Development Organization
    type: authorizer
  - type: publisher
- organization:
    name:
    - content: OASIS BPEL4People TC
    contact:
    - uri: https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/bpel4people/
  role:
  - description:
    - content: Committee
    type: authorizer
- person:
    name:
      given:
        forename:
        - content: Dave
          language:
          - en
          script:
          - Latn
      surname:
        content: Ings,
        language:
        - en
        script:
        - Latn
  role:
  - description:
    - content: Chair
    type: editor
language:
- en
script:
- Latn
abstract:
- content: |-
    Introduces a model for business processes based on Web services. A BPEL process orchestrates interactions among different Web services. The language encompasses features needed to describe complex control flows, including error handling and compensation behavior. In practice, however many business process scenarios require human interactions. A process definition should incorporate people as another type of participants, because humans may also take part in business processes and can influence the process execution.
    This specification introduces a BPEL extension to address human interactions in BPEL as a first-class citizen. It defines a new type of basic activity which uses human tasks as an implementation, and allows specifying tasks local to a process or use tasks defined outside of the process definition. This extension is based on the WS-HumanTask specification.
  language:
  - en
  script:
  - Latn
  format: text/plain
doctype:
  type: specification
editorialgroup:
- name: OASIS BPEL4People TC
ext:
  schema-version: v1.0.1
technology_area:
- Web-Services