Comp150CPA: Clouds and Power-Aware Computing
Classroom Exercise 16
Orchestration and Choreography
Spring 2011

group member 1: ____________________________ login: ______________

group member 2: ____________________________ login: ______________

group member 3: ____________________________ login: ______________

group member 4: ____________________________ login: ______________

group member 5: ____________________________ login: ______________

In class we have described both BPEL (orchestration) and WS-CDL (choreography) languages for describing web service interactions. Let's explore these in more detail.

  1. Annotate the following description of a web service interaction with the tags <exchange>...</exchange>, <sequence>...</sequence>, <parallel>...</parallel>, <choice>...</choice>, <assign></assign>, and <workunit>...</workunit>, as a preliminary translation into WS-CDL. Warning: some loops are implicit. < sequence> </sequence>
  2. Consider the following WS-BPEL:
     
    <sequence name="TakeOrder" >
       <receive name="receiveOrder" 
                createInstance="yes"
                partnerLink ="Client"
                operation="order"/> <!-- here -->
       <reply name="SendConfirmation" 
                partnerLink ="Client"
                operation="confirm"/> <!-- on client -->
    </sequence>
    
    For this example,
    1. What parts are analogous to WS-CDL exchanges?
      Answer: receive and reply.
    2. What parts are analogous to WS-CDL participants?
      Answer: Client (and yourself).
    3. Please sketch the structure of an approximately equivalent WS-CDL description.
      Answer:
       
      <sequence name="TakeOrder" >
         <exchange name='receiveOrder' ... > 
         <exchange name='SendConfirmation' ... > 
      </sequence >
      
    4. (Advanced) Is choreography a substitute for orchestration, or an extension? Explain.
      Answer: Actually, it's a pattern that can be completed to create an orchestration. Choreography describes both sides of an interaction, unlike BPEL, which describes individual processes that happen to interact. But a choreography can be used to create two interacting processes in the trivial way. It does not substitute for BPEL, though, because it has no concept of overarching control.