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The Web Service Choreography Description Language (WS-CDL) is a specification for describing multi party collaboration based on Web Services from a global point of view. WS-CDL is designed to be used in conjunction with the Web Services Business Process Execution Language (WS-BPEL or BPEL). Up to now, work on conceptual mappings between both languages is missing. This paper closes this gap by showing how BPEL process definitions of parties involved in a choreography can be derived from the global WS-CDL model. We have implemented a prototype of the mappings as a proof of concept. The automatic transformation leverages the quality of software components interacting in the choreography as advocated in the Model Driven Architecture concept.
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Mendling, J., Hafner, M. (2005). From Inter-organizational Workflows to Process Execution: Generating BPEL from WS-CDL. In: Meersman, R., Tari, Z., Herrero, P. (eds) On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2005: OTM 2005 Workshops. OTM 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3762. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11575863_70
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