I think this came in through the JDF work.  I don't see much point in having this POM around if the point is to have the individual quickstarts work standalone.  Any objections to removing bpel-pom.xml? 

Related question: I think we should have a sandbox directory in quickstarts where we put apps which are not actively maintained/supported in the community or are broken in some way.  IIRC, the bpel-xts quickstarts fall into this category.  I'm tempted to say that any quickstart which is not validated in our release build should be in the sandbox (demos being the exception).