1/7/2004: BPSS Control Flow and Choreography Learning Session - PleaseRespond

["Monica J. Martin" <Monica.Martin@Sun.COM>]

Simon Lee had requested further information about control flow, 
choreography and state management.  JJ Dubray has graciously agreed to 
provide this tutorial for the team, as the third learning session for 
everyone.  I would propose that the session be 19 January 2004 either at 
8 a.m. or 11 a.m. PST. There is no easy way to make this work given we 
have participants interested in Europe and Asia. 

If interested parties have preferences on times, please let me know. It 
appears that having the learning session just before the regular call 
seems to work well and those participating can stay on for the 
teleconference.

Will either of these times work for you Simon Lee? I believe David Choi 
would also be interested, as well as others. Please let me know so I can 
confirm the date.
I will go ahead and schedule for that day and leave the time TBD.

Thanks.

>>Lee: Dear All,
>>
>>I am a new comer to this list. Currently our research center has planned to
>>develop a graphical editor to generate BPSS. To make the editor simple, we
>>have defined some basic graphical constructs in defining the control flow of
>>a Business Process. The constructs include
>>- Decision (if structure)
>>- Parallel execution
>>- Select execution
>>- Join execution
>>- Repeat execution (loop structure)
>>We feel that these are some of the fundamental constructs in defining
>>business flows/controls. However we've got difficulties in analyzing the
>>spec (especially on control flows, e.g. transitions and fork/join) and
>>therefore we can't make the mapping between these constructs and BPSS. Could
>>anyone point out some resources/references that explain these terms? Do you
>>have any ideas on how to make mapping between our constructs and BPSS? Your
>>comment is invaluable to us!
>>
>mm1: Simon, This is one of our next Learning Session topics: Control flow tutorial - choreography, state management and transitions. Perhaps JJ Dubray can indicate when he could do this Learning Session and you could attend.
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