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The Web Services Insider, Part 4: Introducing the Web Services Flow Language

Overview Workflow is the organization of processes into a well-defined flow of operations to fulfill a business need. IBM recently announced the release of a new XML grammar for defining software workflow processes within the framework of the Web services architecture. In this, the first of four discussions dedicated to the topic of workflow in Web services, I will introduce the fundamental concepts of the Web Services Flow Language, give you a quick tour of what it is, and what it is trying to accomplish.

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Publisher	IBM	File Format	HTML
Date Published	June 2001
Format	White Papers
Topics	XML, Web Services

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