Re: [wsbpel] Issue - 232 - Proposal to vote

[Alex Yiu <alex.yiu@oracle.com>]

Hi Yuzo,

Personally, I prefer "repeatUntil" over "doWhile" as well, because I 
think that is more business-terms natural. (That is, you would see 
"repeat ... until ..." more often in the natural language description of 
a business process.)

On the other hand, I have double checked with Yaron and Alexandre. 
Alexandre indicated that Yaron's original intention is "doWhile".

Anyhow, as I stated before:
"repeatUntil X until Y"  = "do X while not(Y)"
I have both proposals ready.
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/wsbpel/200511/msg00041.html

One way or other, let's just vote to choose one in the next conf call.

Thanks!


Regards,
Alex Yiu


Yuzo Fujishima wrote:

> Alex,
>
> Would you mind repeating the rationale behind your support
> for doWhile (option-2)?
>
> In my opinion, doWhile is too similar to while and many
> BPEL authors will be confused.
>
> I would prefer modifying the description of repeatUntil (option-1).
>
> Yuzo Fujishima
> NEC Corporation
>
> Alex Yiu wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Hi, all,
>>
>> Here is the formal proposal to vote for Issue 232 (this proposal has 
>> been seconded by Venky on Nov 16, 2005).
>>
>> Change the activity name to <doWhile>:
>> -----------------------------
>> <doWhile /standard-attributes/>
>>     /standard-elements/
>>     activity
>>     <condition expressionLanguage="URI"?>boolean-expr</condition>
>> </doWhile>
>> -----------------------------
>>
>> Description: (copied from Danny's email)
>> -----------------------------
>> The <doWhile> construct allows you to indicate the repeated 
>> performance of a specified iterative activity. The iterative activity 
>> will continue to be performed as long as the given Boolean <doWhile> 
>> condition stays true /and the condition is tested after the body of 
>> the loop executes. The <doWhile> activity is used when ones wants the 
>> loop to execute at least once./
>> -----------------------------
>>
>> [Note for editor: this change would affect more than one sections in 
>> the spec text, since the activity name and activity description are 
>> referenced more than once]
>>
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Alex Yiu
>>
>
>
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