Abstract. This paper proposes a framework based on Service Oriented Architecture which integrates diagnostic services in the architecture of a composite service in order to improve the recovery from the occurring exceptions. Our framework supports a fine-grained selection of exception handlers suitable to repair the problem without modifying the basic mechanism offered by standard orchestration engines such as the WS-BPEL compliant ones. Copyright by Springer Verlag. LNBIP 17, Business Process Management Workshops (BPM 2008 Int. Workshops). D. Ardagna, M. Mecella and J. Yang (Eds.).