[Question for Us From XML-DEV] FW: [xml-dev] Will The Real SOA Please Sit Down?

["Chiusano Joseph" <chiusano_joseph@bah.com>]

From the XML-DEV posting below:

<Quote>
I wonder if the SOA Reference Model can be described using a pi calculus
notation.  Really don't know....
</Quote>

Does anyone know the answer to this? I'm not an expert in
3.1415926535-calculus.

On a separate related note (from the below): Does anyone know if W3C
WS-CDL (Choreography Description Language) is based on pi-calculus? I
have seen a large number of references to pi-calc on the public WS-CDL
listserv, but I am not certain as to the exact relationship.

Joe

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-----Original Message-----
From: Bullard, Claude L (Len) [mailto:len.bullard@intergraph.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 1:30 PM
To: 'Mark Baker'; Michael Champion
Cc: Chiusano Joseph; xml-dev@lists.xml.org
Subject: RE: [xml-dev] Will The Real SOA Please Sit Down?

Is it fair to say that given orchestration/choreography, a composition
of processes using services could be described by a process calculus
such as pi calculus?

Readers of the CG list know the sources for this.  Lurkers may wish to
query answers.com for a short overview of pi calculus and process
calculus.

I wonder if the SOA Reference Model can be described using a pi calculus
notation.  Really don't know....

len