Mapping a semantic model of business collaboration to a web services meta model

摘要

Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for modeling a business collaboration. A data model includes an interface class, an operation class, and a message class for use in a web services architecture. The interface class includes one or more operations, and each instance of the interface class corresponds to a business transaction pattern of a business collaboration. The business transaction pattern includes one or more business transaction activities. The operation class represents one or more operations associated with an instance of the interface class. Each instance of the operation class corresponds to a business transaction activity of the business collaboration. The message class represents one or more message types for each instance of the operation class.