Chapter 6. Web Services and Contemporary SOA (Part I: Activity Management and Composition)

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6.1 Message exchange patterns

6.2 Service activity

6.3 Coordination

6.4 Atomic transactions

6.5 Business activities

6.6 Orchestration

6.7 Choreography

The messaging model used for inter-service communication is simple in nature. The challenge lies in implementing this model on an enterprise level while supporting SOA characteristics and preserving the principles of service-orientation.

To execute an automated business task with any substance, we need to be able to coordinate and compose a set of available services. To successfully perform this type of coordination ...

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