Another reaction to the BPELJ proposal: A paper by Howard Smith (who is CSC’s CTO (Europe)). Very interesting, especially the historic (if one can already call it that) information about the BMPL/BPEL controversy. Of course it should be taken with a grain of salt, since Howard Smith is not only co-author of a book on Business Process Management, but also co-chair of BPMI.org (the consortium responsible for BPML).