Web Service Choreography Description Language (WS-CDL): Goals and Benefits

The Web Services Choreography Description Language (WSCDL) is an XML [1]-based language that describes peer-topeer collaborations of participants by defining, from a global viewpoint, their common and complementary observable behavior; where ordered message exchanges result in accomplishing a common business goal. The Web Services [2] specifications offer a communication bridge between the heterogeneous computational environments used to develop and host applications. The future of E-Business applications requires the ability to perform long-lived, peer-to-peer collaborations between the participating services, within or across the trusted domains of an organization. The Web Services Choreography specification is targeted for composing interoperable, peer-to-peer collaborations between any type of participant regardless of the supporting platform or programming model used by the implementation of the hosting environment. In this paper we will be discuss what is the need of a choreography language and the benefits and goals of the WS-CDL.