Oracle Corp. last week unveiled what it called "the industry's first and most complete" Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) platform. Based on technology acquired with its recent purchase of Collaxa ...

Officials from BEA Systems and Oracle this week waged a war of words over BPEL (Business Process Execution Language), the Web services-based specification for orchestration of processes in SOAs.

Breaking down business processes into Web services components was the easy part. Weaving them together into manageable, useful services has proved more ambitious. XML-based business process languages ...