Re: [regrep] BIEs re-visited.

[Duane Nickull <duane@xmlglobal.com>]

A BIE is a Core Component that has been modified to be used within a
certain Business Context.

Example:

A Core Component called "Monetary Amount" may be reused within an
ordering scenario and modified to be called "Invoice Total".  The
modification would also add a few attributes specific to its' new role,
perhaps 'currency="USD"'.

Like Core Components,  BIE's can be aggragated but must be derived from
a related aggregation of Core Components.

The relationship can be seen in the attached drawing:

Cheers

Duane


"Munter, Joel D" wrote:
> 
> Now I am a little confused.  It may be just semantics but Duane just stated
> that a BIE is a child of a Core Component and, in the origin of this thread,
> David said that a BIE is a re-usable collection of core components with
> optionally associated passive context.  Which is it?
> Joel
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Duane Nickull [mailto:duane@xmlglobal.com]
> Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 9:41 AM
> To: David RR Webber - XMLGlobal
> Cc: Lisa Carnahan; OASIS Registry List
> Subject: Re: [regrep] BIEs re-visited.
> 
> I am glad that you all are talking about this topic.
> 
> 1. One thing that would be nice for Design Time is for a Business
> Collaboration Designer (new title??) to be able to query the Registry
> for a list of BIE's that are children of a single Core Component AND are
> subject to a single or set of context rules.  Becuase the list is
> possibly very large,  it may be nice to have an ability to set
> parameters for the query results:
> 
> eg. - return only 10 results at a time and only return the URI of each
> BIE.  Also - what is the sort order????  hmmm????
> 
> 2. This should be a function of the Registry itself via "associations".
> 
> Agreeably,  a BIE should also know what Core Component is its' parent.
> I would argue that this should be in the BIE itself, not only the RIM so
> the BIE still contains that information once it is used outside the
> Registry.
> 
> 3.  In cases where their are several Registries whose content is not
> synced,  how will a user get a list of all BIE's made from a specific
> Core Component?  Can result sets be merged?  There may be an onus on the
> Principle Registry of the Core Component to keep track of all of this
> via its' associations mechanism.
> 
> Just some thoughts (probably to keep some of you up an night  ;-)
> 
> D-
> 
> David RR Webber - XMLGlobal wrote:
> >
> > Message text written by Lisa Carnahan
> > >
> > David and All,
> >
> > The work of the CC-review subteam is to do what you suggest below; that
> is,
> >
> > determine how CCs, BIEs and such can be registered/stored/queried in an
> > ebXML registry.  Our approach is to look at the RIM/Services capabilities
> > in RegV2 as well as look to making enhancements for RegV3 that would
> better
> >
> > support CC/BIE (and such) usage.    The CC-review team is in contact with
> > various CC folks; asking questions, raising issues, etc.
> >
> > --lisa<
> >
> > >>>>>>>>>
> >
> > Lisa,
> >
> > Understood.  I'd previously made a statement on BIEs to the CC-review
> > team that was not accurate given the new information on BIEs.
> > So I wanted to make sure that I corrrected that.
> >
> > Admittedly this came a little bit out of left field ; -)
> >
> > When all this worked started back last year it was very hard to figure -
> > now its
> > coming to fruition the architecture stack is coming together very
> > nicely and I'm looking forward to being able to orchestrate all
> > this using the Registry.
> >
> > Thanks, DW.
> >
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