The list of proposals for Web-services standards continues to grow. The latest, called Web Service Choreography Interface, is from BEA Systems Inc., Intalio Inc., SAP AG, and Sun Microsystems Inc. WSCI is XML based and would help developers program the sequence of multiple transactions defined as Web services within a business process. WSCI, which has been published on the companies' Web sites, will eventually be submitted to an industry standards body.

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