RE: [wsbpel] Groups - BPEL4WS 1.1 Issues Log May 23.doc uploaded

[David RR Webber - XML ebusiness <Gnosis_@compuserve.com>]

Edwin,

No confusion on my side.   If two or more players are sharing a common
BPEL process definition - how stable and predictable is this?  

I'm looking at XSLT here as an example - perfectly good XSLT code 
will work in a compliant processor - but will give erroneous results in 
other 'brand X' processors.  This is extremely frustrating 
for users - and obviously having a clear spec' with well defined 
behaviours is the way out of a potential morass.

A dozen vendors just spent 6 months certifying their ebMS tools
as interoperable.  So the web service interface is not as simple
to align around as it might appear.

SQL would not be an example I'd pick here either, its track record
has been dismal over the last twenty years IMHO - I've got the scars
to prove it  ; -)

DW.
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- We should have interoperability out of the box through Web 
  service interfaces (although WS-RM and WS-TX will make things a little
  more complicated.
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