Definition
In a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) services are interacting by exchanging messages, i.e., by combining services more complex services are created. Orchestration is concerned with the composition of such services seen from the viewpoint of single service.
Key Points
The terms “orchestration” and “choreography” describe two aspects of integrating services to create business processes [2, 3]. The two terms overlap somewhat and the distinction is subject to discussion. Orchestration and choreography can be seen as different “perspectives.” Choreography is concerned with the exchange of messages between those services and is often be characterized by analogy “Dancers dance following a global scenario without a single point of control.” Orchestration is concerned with the interactions of a single service with its environment. Here an analogy can also be used. In orchestration, there is someone, “the conductor”, who tells everybody in the orchestra what to do and makes sure...
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution.
Buying options
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Learn about institutional subscriptionsRecommended Reading
Alves A, Arkin A, Askary S, Barreto C, Bloch B, Curbera F, Ford M, Goland Y, Guzar A, Kartha N, Liu CK, Khalaf R, Koenig D, Marin M, Mehta V, Thatte S, Rijn D, Yendluri P, Yiu A. Web services business process execution language version 2.0 (OASIS Standard). WS-BPEL TC OASIS; 2007. http://docs.oasis-open.org/wsbpel/2.0/wsbpel-v2.0.html
Dumas M, van der WMP, Aalst ter Hofstede AHM. Process-aware information systems: bridging people and software through process technology. New York: Wiley; 2005.
Weske M. Business process management: concepts, languages, architectures. Berlin: Springer; 2007.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Section Editor information
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2018 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature
About this entry
Cite this entry
van der Aalst, W.M.P. (2018). Orchestration. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8265-9_1197
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8265-9_1197
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, New York, NY
Print ISBN: 978-1-4614-8266-6
Online ISBN: 978-1-4614-8265-9
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceReference Module Computer Science and Engineering