The WORKGLOW System in P2P-based Web Service Orchestration

Web service orchestration studies composition of already-existing Web services to create new value-added services. The composite Web services could be executed in a centralized or peer-to-peer (P2P) orchestration model. Compared with centralized-orchestration model, the P2P-based orchestration model provides better scalability, reliability, and performance for the overall services. Unfortunately, recent P2P-orchestration solutions have limitation in supporting complex workflow patterns. Therefore, they could not effectively handle sophisticated business workflow, which contains complex workflow patterns. In this paper, we propose the WORKGLOW system, which can deal with complex workflow patterns while it is able to perform composite services in P2P orchestration manner. Comparing with centralized orchestration systems, the WORKGLOW brings up more business logic advantages, better performance, and higher flexibility with only a little overhead.