Chapter 2. Service Invocation
Services are self-contained units of functionality. BPEL processes specify the exact order in which participating services should be invoked—this is called orchestration. We can do this sequentially or in parallel. With BPEL, we can also express conditional behavior; for example, a service invocation can depend on the return value of a previous invocation. We will see that BPEL processes are essentially graphs of activities.
In this chapter, we will learn how to use BPEL for service invocations using sequential flows. We will develop a BPEL process, which will invoke other services and orchestrate them. This way, the BPEL process will consume services, thus building a composite application.
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