Talk:XPDL

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This article was nominated for deletion on January 7, 2007. The result of the discussion was keep.

[edit] (Sabini)

Who/What is (Sabini) ? Jayvdb 07:47, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] deletion discussion

XPDL was developed by the Workflow Management Coalition and is in use as a interoperability standard by 30 to 40 products/open source projects today.

The reason it is important is because the future of interoperability of systems over long term transactions depends on this kind of standard, and this is the only one that fits this bill. BPEL is a common comparison, but this article explains the difference: [1]

In my industry, it is probably the most important and relevant standard today. As evidence of this, here is a list of companies/products that implement the standard: [2]

[edit] X/Y inclusion

I use XPDL in my organization and don't find X/Y very useful. It wasn't even included in the first specification, if I remember correctly. Why would it be so near the top of the article? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Exbuzz (talk • contribs) 13:43, 17 February 2007 (UTC).