Other Remote Application options and UI protocols

[Yoichi Takayama <yoichi@melcoe.mq.edu.au>]

Dear BPEL4People TC,

(1)

When I was thinking about a general mechanism for remote applications,  
I did not include XUL into consideration, because it is Mozzilla- 
dependent and it uses proprietary programming syntax for it to load.  
This may not be suitable as a generic example as a remote application  
over service.

However, it has a nice feature like downloading UIs of a remote  
application into Mozzilla by specifying a URL for it. The UIs just  
acts as the client application to the remote application.

However, in case of BPMS, it still needs to be first relayed by BPMS  
to make client-server connection, and the "start" and "completion"  
probably require the extra steps I mentioned.

I have no insight into what Windows remote application protocol can do  
(Is there one? Not the Windows Remote Desktop application because it  
can't be used as a Web Service. Is this correct?). If someone can give  
me information, that would be great.

(2)

Also, what I did not mention before is a security issue.

The end user is connected to the BPMS as an authorized user. With  
BPEL, I think that it is assumed that a security token is transfered  
to Web Services, e.g. WS-Security to verify.

With BPEL4People, I think that the security token is also extended to  
the human interface (or the remote application).

If it is not the same as the SOAP context, it must obtain and verify  
the security token from the BPMS or via SAML IdP?

Thanks,
Yoichi

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