Abstract
Business collaboration is increasingly conducted over the Internet. Trading parties require business-level protocols for enabling their collaborative processes and a number of standardised languages, and approaches have been proposed for specifying business-level protocols. To illustrate the specification of web services based collaborative processes, three inter-related specification languages, namely, the ebXML Business Process Specification Schema (BPSS), the Web Service Business Process Execution Language (WSBPEL), and the Web Services Conversations Language (WSCL) are discussed in this chapter. A contract negotiation protocol is used as an example to illustrate the concepts involved in the specification. The chapter also discusses different strategies for deploying these specification languages.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Distributed computing innovations for business, engineering, and science |
| Publisher | IGI Global |
| Pages | 137-154 |
| Number of pages | 18 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781466625334 |
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| Publication status | Published - 1 Nov 2012 |