Re: [ebxml-bp] Managing Context Instance and Activity

["David RR Webber" <david@drrw.info>]

Monica,

I'm proposing this as part of V2 - its such a small
addition - we can take care of this now - without
having to wait until V3.

Context management will give V2 a critical design
advantage.

The cost here is minimal.

Thanks, DW

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Monica J. Martin" <Monica.Martin@Sun.COM>
To: "David RR Webber" <david@drrw.info>
Cc: "BPSS ebXML" <ebxml-bp@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Friday, May 28, 2004 10:58 PM
Subject: Re: [ebxml-bp] Managing Context Instance and Activity


> David RR Webber wrote:
>
> > Team,
> >
> > Referencing the current schema - the signal part of package looks
> > well placed to allow indicating use of a context instance to manage
> > aspects of the interchange.
> >
> > And this would be coupled with the use of specificationID to show
> > that the signal is infact a context item.
> >
> > Here is how this works:
> >
> > <Package>
> >     <Signals>
> >        <Signal name="sample context" nameID="context-01"
> >
specificationLocation="http://context.mycompany.com/bpss/buyingcarsfast.xml";
> >
> >
> >
specificationID="http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ebxml-BP/context/";>
> >     </Signals>
> >     <!-- rest of BPSS package goes here -->
> > </Package>
> >
> > Now the only other functionality I can see that would be nice to have
> > is ability to toggle
> > context use at the DocumentEnvelope level - to enable or disable
context.
> >
> > So we would need to add a flag to <DocumentEnvelope> after
> > isTamperDetectable - which
> > would be useContextInstance = true / false.
> >
> > Since we already have the signal method - this allows a partner to
> > signal the use of
> > context - and then the useContextInstance indicates when during the
> > interchange.
> >
> > Thanks, DW
>
> mm1: Dave thanks for the contribution. You have a jump on your work item
> for v3.0! We'll consider after we get the v2.0 schema ready to bake.
> Thanks.
>
>