Usage Scenarios

Usage scenarios are used to define the scope of products within business process management and business process modelling. Within web services they are used to validate the various possible models to be implemented.

A key difference between business process usage scenarios and web services usage scenarios is that

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Technorati

W3C

Architecture

Use Cases / "Operational Scenarios"

Travel Agent Static

Travel Agent Dynamic

Purchasing like EDocs

Usage Scenarios

Open Questions:

Will Web Services fail due to one of

over-complex specification,

difficult to use specification,

lack of sponsorship,

lack of tight fit of specification

Recent Activity

2004-03-26 -W3C Web Services Description Working Group release draft WSDL 2.0

2004-03-22 IBM and BEA launch initiative on BPELJ integration of BPEL and Java

2004-02-11 - W3C Web Services Architecture Working Group Final Publications:
WS Architecture
WS Architecture Requirements
WS Usage Scenarios
WS Glossary
WS Service Managment Service Life Cycle
OWL Ontology