Re: [ebxml-cppa-negot] Hima'sNegotiation BPSS Instance

["Himagiri(Hima) Mukkamala" <himagiri@sybase.com>]

I'm attaching a zip file which I generated from a visio drawing.
HOpefully this explains the business process.

Only reason you see multiple accept and reject states in the picture
is to make it clear. We can talk about this in next conf call.

-hima

Martin W Sachs wrote:

> The Negotiation BPSS instance contains two Binary Collaborations, each with
> a Start element.  I can't find anything that unambiguously specifies that
> the choreography begins with the "CPA Offer BTA"  business transaction
> activity under the "CPA_Negotiation_BC" binary collaboration. As far as I
> can tell, it might equally well begin with the "CPA Counter Offer 1 BTA"
> business transaction acvitity uner the "CPA Negotiation CounterOfferBC"
> binary collaboration.
>
> Of course, we all know from the semantics of what we are doing that  the
> "CPA Offer BTA" business transaction activity has to start things off, but
> a BPSS deployment tool won't know that.  What determines where the
> choreography actually begins when there is more than one binary
> collaboration in the instance document?
>
> I suspect that the BPSS designers intended that each binary collaboration
> be independent, with its own choreography.  If I am right, we are violating
> that assumption because the two binary collaborations in this instance
> document are very definitely connected into a single choreography.
>
> Regards,
> Marty
>
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