WS-Coordination

As the protocol used to call WS-Coordination operations is SOAP, the message content is plain text in an XML format.

WS-Coordination connects web services by coordinating the activities of a business process in the appropriate order of execution.

The WS-Coordination specification provides a coordination framework offering services for activity creation, registration and coordination.

WS-Coordination describes an extensible framework for providing protocols that coordinate the actions of distributed applications.

WS-Coordination is the underlying framework which makes distributed outcome of activities between participants possible.

WS-Coordination (WS-Coor), which provides the underlying mechanism for the creation and exchange of transaction context.

WS-Coordination manages sequences of operations in a distributed network of web services.

The Application uses the Activation Service defined in WS-Coordination to obtain a transactional context.

Both are used with the extensible coordination framework described in the WS-Coordination specification.

Web services support transactions using the WS-Transaction and the WS-Coordination specifications.

WS-Atomic Transaction and WS-Coordination are web services based but they have poor performance.