Chapter 14. Modeling Business Processes: BPEL

The architecture presented thus far has illustrated how you can use Web services specifications in different combinations to create secure, reliable, transacted interactions between distributed, heterogeneous applications. Services can be offered with different views both within an organization and between organizations. Domain-specific interfaces (Web Services Description Language [WSDL 1.1] portTypes) can be standardized, such as for ticketing in the airline industry. This provides a universal plug point and shorter time to market for providers of compliant service implementations and a highly competitive and diverse set of offerings for consumers who are looking for a particular functionality. From ...

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