Occurrences

Acronym Expansion

Web Services Coordination

Description

WS-Coordination describes an extensible framework for providing protocols that coordinate the actions of distributed applications. Such coordination protocols are used to support a number of applications, including those that need to reach consistent agreement on the outcome of distributed transactions. The framework defined by WS-Coordination enables an application service to create a context needed to propagate an activity to other services and to register for coordination protocols. The framework enables existing transaction processing, workflow, and other systems for coordination to hide their proprietary protocols and to operate in a heterogeneous environment. Additionally, WS-Coordination describes a definition of the structure of context and the requirements for propagating context between cooperating services. (Definition by courtesy of the authors taken form the language specification)