Chapter 16. Service-Oriented Design (Part IV: Business Process Design)

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16.1 WS-BPEL language basics

16.2 WS-Coordination overview

16.3 Service-oriented business process design (a step-by-step process)

The orchestration service layer provides a powerful means by which contemporary service-oriented solutions can realize some key benefits. The most significant contribution this sub-layer brings to SOA is an abstraction of logic and responsibility that alleviates underlying services from a number of design constraints.

For example, by abstracting business process logic:

• Application and business services can be freely designed to be process-agnostic ...

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