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Bite: Workflow Composition for the Web Francisco Curbera, Matthew Duftler, Rania Khalaf, and Douglas Lovell IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY 10532, USA {curbera, duftler, rkhalaf, dclo}@ Abstract. Service composition is core to service oriented architectures. In the Web, mainstream composition is practiced in client-side or server- side mashups, such as providing visual widgets on top of Google Maps re- sults. This paper presents an explicit, workflow based composition model for Web applications called Bite. In contrast with prior attempts to bring workflow capabilities to the Web environment, Bite can deal with data integration as well as interactive, asynchronous workflows with multi- party interactions, and is architected to support protocols currently in use by Web applications. The Bite development model is designed for simplicity and short development cycle by taking a scripting approach to workflow development. 1 Introduction It is probably fair to say that service oriented architectures [1] deliver two main values: extended interoperability (runtime as well as tools) and service compo- sition. It is hard to argue at this point with the success of the SOC approach, as its wide adoption by enterprises and public organizations demonstrates. In the last few years, however, questions have been raised from Web-centric developers about the complexity and overhead of the SOA and Web services models [2]. Interoperability, it is argued, was delivered by the Web years ago and at a much lower overhead to both runtime systems and developers. While failing to address the need for end-to-end quality of service and tools in enterprise settings, this argument is certainly appropriate in the context in which it