The WS Choreography Definition Language (WS-CDL) is an XML-based language that describes peer-to-peer collaborations of Web Services participants by defining their common and complementary observable behavior; where ordered message exchanges result in accomplishing a common business goal. The Web Services Choreography specification is targeted for composing interoperable peer-to-peer collaborations between any type of Web Service participant regardless of the supporting platform or programming model used by the implementation of the hosting environment.
Technical submissions: Web Services Conversation Language (WSCL) and Web Services Choreography Interface (WSCI)
Also see: WS Choreography Model.
Organization: W3C
More information: Web Services Choreography Working Group page on the W3C website (new window)
More detail for the current topic: WS Choreography Description Language (CDL)
More on the general topic: Workflow
- Business Centric Methodology (BCM)
- Business Process Execution Language (BPEL)
- Business Process Query Language (BPQL)
- Business Process Specification Schema (BPSS)
- Business Transaction Protocol (BTP)
- Collaboration Protocol Profile/Agreement (CPP/A)
- Common Alerting Protocol (CAP)
- Content Assembly Mechanism (CAM)
- Partner Interface Process (PIP)
- RosettaNet Implementation Framework (RNIF)
- Web Services Flow Language (WSFL)
- Wf-XML
- XLANG