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A Formal Account of WS-BPEL

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We introduce B \(\mathit{lite}\), a lightweight language for web services orchestration designed around some of WS-BPEL peculiar features like partner links, process termination, message correlation, long-running business transactions and compensation handlers. B \(\mathit{lite}\) formal presentation helps clarifying some ambiguous aspects of the WS-BPEL specification, which have led to engines implementing different semantics and, thus, have undermined portability of WS-BPEL programs over different platforms. We illustrate the main features of B \(\mathit{lite}\) by means of many examples, some of which are also exploited to test and compare the behaviour of three of the most known free WS-BPEL engines.

This work has been supported by the EU project Sensoria, IST-2005-016004.

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Lapadula, A., Pugliese, R., Tiezzi, F. (2008). A Formal Account of WS-BPEL . In: Lea, D., Zavattaro, G. (eds) Coordination Models and Languages. COORDINATION 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5052. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68265-3_13

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