TY - CHAP T2 - Coordination Models and Languages (COORDINATION 2008) PB - Springer N2 - We introduce B lite, a lightweight language for web services orchestration designed around some of WS-BPEL peculiar features like partner links, process termination, message correlation, long-running business transactions and compensation handlers. B lite formal presentation helps clarifying some ambiguous aspects of the WS-BPEL specification, which have led to engines implementing different semantics and, thus, have undermined portability of WS-BPEL programs over different platforms. We illustrate the main features of B lite by means of many examples, some of which are also exploited to test and compare the behaviour of three of the most known free WS-BPEL engines. EP - 215 ID - eprints410 SN - 978-3-540-68264-6 ED - Lea, Doug ED - Zavattaro, Gianluigi Y1 - 2008/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68265-3_13 A1 - Lapadula, Alessandro A1 - Pugliese, Rosario A1 - Tiezzi, Francesco M1 - 5052 T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science SP - 199 TI - A Formal Account of WS-BPEL N1 - ©Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2008. The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com AV - public ER -