Business Process Execution Language for Web Services - Second Edition

WS-Coordination

In a typical business scenario, web services may be required to share information, such as security context, transaction context, and so on while participating in a composite business process. The WS-Coordination specification defines a framework for this purpose. This is an extensible framework and allows existing applications to hide their proprietary protocols while coordinating with other applications in a heterogeneous environment. It is used in conjunction with other specifications and does not provide a complete solution on its own. WS-Coordination is used whenever coordination between applications developed using different vendor specifications is desired. Such applications obviously run under different trust domains and ...