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Brief

This specification (WS-Coordination) describes an extensible framework for providing protocols that coordinate the actions of distributed applications. Such coordination protocols are used to support a number of applications, including those that need to reach consistent agreement on the outcome of distributed transactions.

The framework defined in this specification enables an application service to create a context needed to propagate an activity to other services and to register for coordination protocols. The framework enables existing transaction processing, workflow, and other systems for coordination to hide their proprietary protocols and to operate in a heterogeneous environment.

Additionally, this specification describes a definition of the structure of context and the requirements for propagating context between cooperating services.

Specification

WS-Coordination

Schema

WS-Coordination
Utility

WSDL

WSCoordination

Status

WS-Coordination and related specifications are provided for use as-is and for review and evaluation only. BEA, IBM and Microsoft will solicit your contributions and suggestions in the near future. BEA, IBM and Microsoft make no warrantees or representations regarding the specification in any manner whatsoever.