RE: Choreography and Orchestration

Monika:

Note that all are a form of coordination. WS-CAF presents a very
abstract framework from which you can build all forms of coordinations:
Composition
Orchestration
Transaction
Choreography
Collaboration
...

WS-CAF suggests that to build a "coordinator" (not an orchestrator), you
need as least a context manager and activity lifecycle manager. 

Interestingly enough a binary collaboration or choreography is
self-coordinated (or more accurately as Bob Haugen puts it: the
coordination responsibility is shared between parties). 

I sense that we are close to a unified coordination model...

This is not on ebpml.org but coming soon ;-)

JJ-

-----Original Message-----
From: Monika Solanki [mailto:monika@dmu.ac.uk] 
Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 10:48 AM
To: Steve Ross-Talbot
Cc: public-ws-chor@w3.org
Subject: Re: Choreography and Orchestration


Thanks Steve. This has indeed helped.

-Monika

Steve Ross-Talbot wrote:

>
> Monika,
>
> The simple answer is that orchestration implies a centralised control 
> mechanism (i.e. the conductor in an orchestra), whereas choreography 
> does not (dancers on a stage). In the former the players have a score 
> that they adhere to (in BPEL this might be the abstract BPEL defs for 
> the individual components) and the conductor ensures they all work 
> togther harmoniously (the rest of BPEL). In the latter all the dancers

> have a choreography and understand their role in the overall dance 
> because it has been agreed or imposed for them.
>
> Orchestration is typically used in a domain of control. Choreography 
> would be used across domain of control to ensure harmony 
> (interoperability etc).
>
> Choreography is sometimes viewed as a peer2peer global model of the 
> external observable behaviour of the interacting components. We can 
> think of this as a global behavioural contract that might be used to 
> generate component stubs (i.e. Skeletal code) and/or with a tool by 
> one or more components that is used to monitor the contract or even 
> statically as input to a tool to reason about the behaviour (are there

> any deadlock or livelocks in this contract?).
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Steve T
>
> On 28 Jan 2004, at 19:07, Monika Solanki wrote:
>
>>
>> There has been extensive discussions  on the conceptual differences 
>> between the above two terms. I was interested in documents that 
>> formally capture them. If  such documents exists, it would be great 
>> if someone can forward pointers to them.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Monika
>> p.s; I have already explored www.ebpml.org
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