RE: [wsbpel] Issue 7 - possible resolution

[Francisco Curbera <curbera@us.ibm.com>]

I think we want to follow a XSD/WSDL-like model and declare the namespaces
on the import element. The idea is to explicitly state in the BPEL document
what are the namespaces that are external dependencies of the process
definition.

Paco



                                                                                                                                  
                      "Yaron Goland"                                                                                              
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                      09/30/2003 12:58         Subject:  RE: [wsbpel] Issue 7 - possible resolution                               
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Keep in mind that even in option 1 it will be necessary for the processor
to
validate the file's contents. Just because someone says something is a WSDL
file doesn't mean it is.

Also, why do we need the targetNamespace declaration on the import
statement? The files themselves define their namespaces.

             Yaron

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Francisco Curbera [mailto:curbera@us.ibm.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 9:23 AM
> To: wsbpel@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: [wsbpel] Issue 7 - possible resolution
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> As agreed at the last f2f, my proposed resolution of issue 7
> is described
> below (#1.) Based on that discussion, we can consider a
> second flavors of
> the proposal, described in #2. I suggest we adopt one of them
> (#1 is my
> preference) and close this issue.
>
> 1. Introduce a single <bpel:import> element used to import  XSD, WSDL
> definitions. Zero or more <bpel:import> elements may appear as first
> children of the <bpel:process> element. Three required
> attributes must be
> included on each <bpel:import> element:
>
> - targetNamespace being imported
> - location: where to find the imported information
> - importType: identifies the type of document being imported
> by providing
> the URI of the encoding language: either
> "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema
> ", or "http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/";.
>
> <bpel:import targetNamespace="..."  location="... document
> location ..."
> importType="XYZ-namespace-uri/>
>
> 2. The alternate version of the eliminates the importType attribute.
>
> What is the difference? In option 2, a BPEL processor finds
> and import and
> retrieves the target document without knowing what kind of
> document that
> is. The processor must open and inspect the document in order
> to figure out
> how to process it. On discovering the type of the root
> element inside the
> document, the processor will be able to dispatch a Schema or
> WSDL processor
> to consume the document (which will in turn read the document and now
> actually process it.) In option 1, the BPEL processor has not
> need to read
> in the target document, it can just handle the job to the appropriate
> (Schema or WSDL) processor.  Otherwise proposals are
> equivalent, of course.
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