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Web Services Platform Architecture: SOAP, WSDL, WS-Policy, WS-Addressing, WS-BPEL, WS-Reliable Messaging, and More
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Web Services Platform Architecture: SOAP, WSDL, WS-Policy, WS-Addressing, WS-BPEL, WS-Reliable Messaging, and More

by Sanjiva Weerawarana, Francisco Curbera, Frank Leymann, Tony Storey, Donald F. Ferguson
March 2005
Intermediate to advanced
456 pages
9h 29m
English
Pearson
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Part 7. Service Composition

This part of the book talks about how to take one or more services and compose them to form a new service. The figure that follows shows where this topic falls in the stack of Web services specifications.

Service Composition

This area brings you to a new level of complexity, starting with how different services can be aggregated into more sophisticated higher-level services. Chapter 14, “Modeling Business Processes: BPEL” presents the Web Services Business Process Execution Language specification (WS-BPEL, better known as BPEL), which is being standardized at OASIS. BPEL enables service aggregations to be defined in both an abstract and an ...

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