BPEL for Windows Workflow Foundation March Community Technology Preview is released

BPEL for Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) is an add on for Windows Workflow Foundation in the .NET Framework 3.0. BPEL is the Business Process Execution Language and this download is an unsupported Community Technology Preview (CTP) for using this technology with WF. The download, which is aimed at software developers, provides import and export tools for BPEL and includes WF activities representing BPEL for the WF designer in Visual Studio 2005.

This release reinforces how WF is extensible and not dependant on any specific modeling language for its declarative modeling approach. Others in the community are encouraged to build activity sets that represent other process modeling languages that suit their needs. By supporting declarative modelling with WF in an extensible way Microsoft is providing .NET Framework developers with a familiar code oriented approach that can also be higher level and more productive.