1 BPEL & ITS IMPLEMENTATION IN GARMENT SECTOR

This document defines a notation for specifying business process behavior based on Web Services. Web services are touted to turn the Internet into a general platform for distributed computing as required for B2B eCommerce. Web services are the glue that will link together web deployed components to form web applications. Just as there are issues with traditional component adaptation due to versioning and independent development so there are with web services. Many organizations are moving from an object-oriented paradigm for managing business processes toward a service-oriented approach; indeed, services are becoming the fundamental elements of application development. At the same time, Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) has become the standard for orchestrating these services and managing flawless execution of business process. The confluence of these trends is presenting some interesting opportunities for more flexible, cost-effective management of business processes. For our local garment sector we are developing a BPEL model so that it enhances process of th