Exposing Process Flows and Choreography Controllers as Web Services

摘要

C:NRPortbnDCC4DER/2604516_1.DOC-30/I l2009 A method of choreographing web services, wherein a choreography includes a plurality of messages mapped to standard-compliant interfaces of a plurality of service 5 entities, assigning a conversation identifier to the messages, and conducting messages exchanges among the service entities according to the choreography, the method including: routing the message exchanges through a choreography agent, wherein the choreography agent: inspects messages to fund data fields that imply which choreography 10 instance the messages belong to; updates the status of a choreography instance implied by the inspection of the messages, and forwards the messages to their destinations.