I would propose that we close this issue
with no action. I believe the concern is with this section:
"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...”
If you only look at this sentence, you
could imagine runtimes with different level of sophistication for their static
analysis coming to different conclusions for this question.
However, later in the specification (line
75) says: “A simple static analysis of the control flow,
which does not involve determining the values of any expressions, will be used
to determine which role can send the first message.”
I believe that with this caveat, everyone’s
static analysis should come to the same conclusion.
Michael
From: Alex Yiu
[mailto:alex.yiu@oracle.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007
12:16 PM
To: Danny van der Rijn
Cc: sca-bpel@lists.oasis-open.org;
ALEX.YIU@oracle.com
Subject: [sca-bpel] Issue 5 -
Title: The algorithm for deciding whether a partnerLink is a service or a
reference needs to be deterministic
Alex Yiu wrote:
Issue entered:
http://www.osoa.org/jira/browse/BPEL-5
Alex Yiu wrote:
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:
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