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Although WS-BusinessActivity and BPEL4WS Long-Running Transaction (LRT) are conceptually very similar and are both designed to support the execution of complex business transactions, they differ in a large number of aspects. This is particularly true because BPEL4WS, unlike WS-BusinessActivity, was not designed to support distributed coordination. This paper comprehensively discusses the similarities and differences between WS-BusinessActivity and BPEL4WS LRT and demonstrates the two concepts on the basis of a joint example. The proposal is to replace BPEL4WS' concept of compensation handlers with a more comprehensive handler type — coordination handlers — that communicate only via SOAP messages and thus make WS-BusinessActivity redundant.
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Sauter, P., Melzer, I. (2005). A Comparison of WS-BusinessActivity and BPEL4WS Long-Running Transaction. In: Müller, P., Gotzhein, R., Schmitt, J.B. (eds) Kommunikation in Verteilten Systemen (KiVS). Informatik aktuell. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-27301-8_10
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