One can use both choreography and orchestration is the same system as we have done in our product. Various actors performing various tasks dispatched to them are choreographed by the event pub/sub system via events they generate. For example, when a prime mover carrying a container arrives at a warehouse, that event, which is subscribed by the warehouse manager app, prompts the warehouse manager to activate the resources to unload the cargo. But when exceptions happen, such as the forklift to carry the load breaks down, that event starts an orchestration engine (a workflow processor) to orchestrate the task for various actors as per the exception handling workflow to handle the exception.

基本技术(如XML、SOAP、WSDL)提供了将服务作为实体来描述、定位和调用的方法。然而，这些技术并没有提供关于服务在更复杂的协作中的角色的丰富行为细节。此协作包括一系列活动和活动之间的关系，这些活动和关系构建业务流程。有两种方法构建此流程:服务编制和服务编排。

服务编制

服务编制表示一个集中的可执行业务流程(编配器)，用于协调不同服务之间的交互。协调器负责调用和组合服务。

所有参与服务之间的关系由单个端点(即组合服务)描述。编制包括管理各个服务之间的事务。业务流程为服务组合采用集中式方法。

服务编排

服务编排是参与服务的全局描述，由两个或多个端点之间的消息交换、交互规则和协议定义。编排为服务组合使用了分散的方法。

编排描述了多个服务之间的交互，其中编排表示从一方的角度进行控制。这意味着编排与编排在控制所涉及服务之间交互的逻辑应该驻留的位置上有所不同。

Service orchestration: you put together several services by a fixed logic. This logic is described at a single place. You can imagine a team of people with a manager doing micro-management. The manager precisly tells what, when and who should do. The team members do not care of the entire goal of the job, the manager combines the outputs into a single deliverable. A practical example is a BPEL process. BPEL process contains the logic, can invoke several services and combine their responses into a single service response.

Service choreography: the decision logic is distributed, with no centralized point. You can imagine a home, where everybody aims for the common good and works pro-actively without micro-management. Or you can imagine a human body, where different members are interdependent and work for the common goal. A practical example is event driven processing, where an agent is activated by an event and does its job. All the agents make a system together. There is no centralized logic. Choreography possibilities may go farther beyond orchestration as it is more aligned with the real world.

我的观点是，我们不需要对这两者进行太多区分，因为我们需要关注业务逻辑。在单点逻辑可以完成工作的地方，我们进行编排。如果一个问题不能被集中的逻辑覆盖，我们就不得不编排。这就是为什么我们经常在IT中遇到编排，而编排更多地是一个学术概念和一个研究主题。我们经常在不知情的情况下编舞，就像在现实世界中一样。

另一种看待服务编排与编排的方法:

—服务编排:围绕业务域。 —服务编排:在多个业务域之间。

我认为编排在内部非常适合高度分散的组织。您不需要中央业务流程执行器。这有利于每个组织子单元的独立成长和发展。

(我赞同编配与编排问题的解释: http://geekexplains.blogspot.com/2008/07/ways-of-combining-web-services.html)

In orchestration, there is a conductor and there are instrument players. Players play according to how conductor conducts. If conductor is replaced, the harmonic expression will be different i.e. it is still the same play (service) but with a different outcome. For example, to provide a financial arrangement proposal, the orchestration service will conduct by asking (invoking) each player (entity or utility service, e.g. credit check) to play (return results or adjust/update its playing) according to conductor's template (business rules). In choreography, there is a choreographer and there are groups of dancers. Choreography is a direction, but each group of dancers is autonomous in how to realize that direction.