[business-transaction] WSDL for Client/Factory interaction and otherstuff

["WEBBER,JIM (HP-UnitedKingdom,ex1)" <jim_webber@hp.com>]

Hello all,

The face-to-face meeting that we have just had today was very useful, and I
think that the attendees will be posting some proposals to the group
shortly. HP was tasked with two things from this meeting which will need
committee approval. 

The first of these things was to get someone from our UDDI outfit to put
some kind of formal placeholder in the UDDI taxonomy for BTP. I'd like to
discuss this at the next teleconference, it should be as simple as yes or no
from each of us, and some ideas as to what our UDDI flag should be called.

The second thing is, as you will have read in the minutes, one of the
interesting topics that we discussed was the interaction of various parties
and how we might best go about producing interoperable implementations for
them. HP was asked to come up with a WSDL description for the begin/begun
aspects of the client/factory interaction which it was thought would be the
only interface in the whole BTP scenario where we might realistically have
end-user interaction (other interfaces are going to be used by implementers
only so it was thought that less friendly means could be used so that
flexibility would not be sacrificed particularly pertaining to compounding
messages).

Anyway, here is a straw man (attached) of what the WSDL for this interaction
might look like. It has been automatically generated by Microsoft's WSDL
tool in Visual Studio.Net from a set of C# classes which basically contained
the C# implementation of the necessary data for each message (which I can
source if anyone is interested).

The WSDL is a little rough round the edges (in particular the namespaces
aren't right) but it should give us enough to start a discussion, and I'd
hope that a few people might have a few ideas (Alex?).

One more thing, Alastair it took not 30 seconds as I had boasted but less
than 30 minutes :-)

Jim
--
Dr. James Webber
Hewlett-Packard Arjuna Lab
http://www.arjuna.com

BTPService.wsdl