RE: [wsbpel] Q: process category?

["Satish Thatte" <satisht@microsoft.com>]

See below

 

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From: Ron Ten-Hove [mailto:Ronald.Ten-Hove@Sun.COM]
Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 12:43 PM
To: Sid Askary
Cc: wsbpel@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: Re: [wsbpel] Q: process category?

 

Sid,

    A process category may fall mostly into the "deployment" bucket, and thus be ultra vires. Alternatively, perhaps it would be useful to give each process type a globally unique identifier.

 

 [Satish Thatte] It is easy to manufacture a unique QName from the targetNamespace and NCName of the process -- one may claim that this is in fact implied by the usual semantics of targetNamespaces.

 

 This would make management of BPEL and associated artifacts easier, at both design- and deployment-time, giving us a standard context "hook" for additional (non-standard) features.

    Perhaps something like:

<process name="ncname" targetNamespace="uri" uuid="string" ...>

....

Where uuid is a string representation of a universally unique identifier for the process. The value of uuid should be changed each time the process is altered to avoid confusion between multiple versions of the same process type.

-Ron

Sid Askary wrote:

For the purposes of internal process execution management and administration of services, one is forced to imagine some property of the process that would identify it with a category.  Such internal classification is common practice and can be reflected explicitly:

<process  name="ncname" targetNamespace="uri"
  queryLanguage="anyURI"?
  .
  .
  category="ncname"/>



What does the group think?

Thanks,
Sid.