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Workflow Definition Service

Under investigation
Description
 

A Workflow Definition Service allows a user to define a sequence of services (a workflow, or chain) that perform a required action. For example, a user may wish to send the output from a Feature Generalization Service to a Web Map Service in order to visualize the data.

The chain can be executed using a Workflow Enactment Service.


Implementation Specification
 
Version
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Status
 
2001.04.01 Proposed

Other Info
 

A Workflow Definition Service is seen as a low priority. It is unlikely that it will be specified before 2005.

This service may not be needed, particularly for the vast majority of service chains that are enacted. Domain-specific applications could contain definitions of standard sequences of operations, and to facilitate the calling of these services. Service chaining may not become a service per se but a set of operations embedded inside a large number of domain related application services that will allow those applications to dynamically chain to other services based on service discovery operations.

It may be possible to choose a generic web technology solution for this service.

effective 2001.09.20