Re: [opencsa-liaison] New Issue: Cross SCA TC conformance

[Jeff Mischkinsky <jeff.mischkinsky@oracle.com>]

or just make the assembly spec the "root". (just a suggestion)
    -jeff

On Dec 09, 2008, at 10:15 AM, Mary McRae wrote:

> Interesting conversation – because each of these specs are being  
> created by separate Technical Committees, they are each going to be  
> separate and distinct specs. They will each need to have their own  
> conformance statements, which I don’t think precludes saying that  
> you must also implement x, y and z from other-spec b and w from  
> other-spec c. But there can’t be a spec “SCA v1.1” unless one TC  
> creates it. I can envision one of the TCs creating SCA v1.1 and then  
> saying it incorporates by reference the other specifications …
>
> Mary
>
> From: Martin Chapman [mailto:martin.chapman@oracle.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2008 12:50 PM
> To: 'OASIS Liaison'
> Subject: [opencsa-liaison] New Issue: Cross SCA TC conformance
>
> There are a number of issues related to conformance that I think the  
> Liaison SC should discuss since they cross TC boundaries.
> Each Spec is required to have its own conformance section, and  
> normally these are stand alone entities.
> Typically  we would see statements like “To conform to this  
> specification a vendor MUST implement all the features outlined in  
> sections x thru z” .
> However for some of our specs this will not make sense. Take  
> Bindings for example. Since we are not defining plug and play apis  
> to allow  a binding vendor to be different from an SCA runtime  
> vendor, how would we write the conformance in each binding spec?
>
> Also, some have talked about the notion of  conforming to SCA v1.1,  
> but that would probably encompass Assembly, Policy, bindings and   
> the  c+i.
> For example “To conform to sca v1.1. a vendor MUST support assembly,  
> policy, bindings.ws (for example) implemented in one of the  
> following languages according to its c+I: java, bpel, c++”. Where  
> are we going to make such a declaration? Assembly?
>
> Martin.
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