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Web Services Flow Language (WSFL 1.0)

Overview The Web Services Flow Language (WSFL)is an XML language for the description of Web Services compositions WSFL considers two types of Web Services compositions:

• The first type specifies the appropriate usage pattern of a collection of Web Services, in such a way that the resulting composition describes how to achieve a particular business goal; typically, the result is a description of a business process

• The second type specifies the interaction pattern of a collection of Web Services; in this case, the result is a description of the overall partner interactions.

In the first case, a composition is created by describing how to use the functionality provided by the collection of composed Web Services. This is also known as flow composition, orchestration, or choreography of Web Services.

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Publisher	IBM	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	May 2001
Format	White Papers
Topics	XML, Web Services

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