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Does the protocol automatically convert the Process Definition Format?

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Does the protocol automatically convert the Process Definition Format?

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No. The protocol merely communicates the process definition to and from the client and server. The process design tool and the process engine must be able to agree on a format to exchange. • How hard is it to implement? At this point the underlying SOAP support is readily available, and because this uses web service technology in a normal way, it is quite easy to implement the 4 or 5 web service operations that are needed. • Is it really a web service? The common definition of a web service is that the messages that are to be exchanged are defined using WSDL. Since Wf-XML 2.0 is defined using WSDL, we say that Wf-XML is a standard web service. We have been careful to assure this because only by strict adherence to the standard can we have the best chance to benefit from all the other work being done on web service standards. • Is it compatible with Wf-XML 1.1? No. The earlier protocol was not based on SOAP messages. While it is based on many of the same ideas, we felt the conformance t

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