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Subject: Re: [sca-bpel] NEW ISSUE: Title: The algorithm for deciding whethera partnerLink is a service or a reference needs to be deterministic



Hi, Danny,

The way that I read that section is: the logic there is quite deterministic already:
If a partnerLink can be determined as a service,
then that is a service ...
If not,
    if reference case#1, then ...
    if not #1 and if #2, then ...
    if not #1 or #2 and if #3, then ..
    if not #1, #2, #3, then ...

Let me give you an example. If a partnerLink is used in both invoke and receive activities without any logical ordering enforced in the process definition, it will go into the reference case. Because, the static analysis CANNOT determine the partnerLink is a service.

My thought is: if different implementation come out a different componentType definition after static analysis of the same process, it sounds to me that it is more like a bug in an implementation, not the case of the spec being unclear. (unless you can give me a concrete example of our existing rules are not sufficient)

And, I think if users do not want to rely on static analysis of a BPEL process to calculate the componentType, it may be a better idea to ask users to supply an explicit componentType artifact. (That is an issue raised by Anish.)


Thanks!


Regards,
Alex Yiu


Danny van der Rijn wrote:
46F2E66C.5010000@tibco.com" type="cite">TARGET: SCA C+I WS-BPEL spec, General

DESCRIPTION: Section 2.1 currently states "If a static analysis of the process determines that it is possible that the first message for a partner link will be received in a <receive> activity, the <onMessage> element of a <pick> activity or the <onEvent> element of an event handler then the partner link has a corresponding SCA service in the component type."
I have concerns that this will leave cases where one vendor can make such determination, where another vendor, with a less sophisticated static analysis can not.  This will leave the algorithm implementation-dependent.  The goal of the algorithm is to produce a component type from a BPEL file in a deterministic way, with no external dependencies.


PROPOSAL: none




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