Mappings from graphical languages such as the Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) to BPEL are available, but programmers familiar to syntax like Java, C, ... are disregarded.
Therefore, the "BPEL Simplified Syntax" called SimPEL[5][6] was recommended by the Apache ODE Group,[7] referring to the a mix of both options.
In order to come up with an easy scripting syntax, BPELscript is introduced, referring to the second option.
BPELscript forks directly from SimPEL aiming on big closeness to BPEL.
In contrast to SimPEL, BPELscript supports all of BPELs constructs including the correlation.