Service Composition Facts

This document provides facts related to "Service Composition" for usage in the written part of my diploma thesis.

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What is Service Composition?

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Secure, Reliable, Transacted Web Services [FS03]
  • The uppermost element in the Web service layering is service composition. Service composition allows developers to "compose" services that exchange SOAP messages and define their interface in WSDL and WS-Policy into an aggregate solution. The aggregate is a composed Web service.
  • Composition has three aspects: structure, information and behavior (f.e. BPEL4WS introduces three constructs supporting each composition aspect)