WSCL

Web Services Conversation Language

• Sequencing of interactions between operations of a single interface
• Document Type Descriptions
• Types of documents to be exchanged
• Interactions
• The actions of a conversation between participants
• Transitions
• Ordering relationships between interactions
• Conversations
• Set of interactions and transitions

WSCL Pros

• Fills the gap between mere IDLs that do not define any choreography and more complex flow languages that describe multiparty conversations

WSCL Cons

• Does not define multiparty conversations
• Does not handle recursive composition of services
• Too simplistic for our goals