Re: [regrep] Dynamic Discovery/Binding/Invocation

["Chiusano Joseph" <chiusano_joseph@bah.com>]

Whatever it doesn't do, BCM does.

:P
lol

Matthew MacKenzie wrote:
> 
> Wow, CAM does everything.
> 
> Tell me David, what does it not do?
> 
> :-)
> 
> -Matt
> 
> On Apr 20, 2004, at 5:11 PM, David RR Webber wrote:
> 
>      Joe,
> 
>      The later - dynamic interface configuration - is the domain
>      of CAM - acting as a service of registry.
> 
>      We can do one part of this already. Given a context
>      configuration - you apply your context values - and
>      CAM will adjust the interchange content accordingly.
> 
>      Example - if you are a supplier in Canada to GM in
>      Detroit - you need to provide cross-border shipment
>      information - while if you are in Michigan - you don't.
> 
>      That's the point of the work on Context for BPSS
>      V2.0 that we have in place.
> 
>      This then allows you to configure a catalogue of
>      business process components into which you put -
>      CPA, Context, BPSS and CAM templates - and
>      when discovery occurs - the new partner can
>      configure the Context and load the templates into
>      their software and start using it.
> 
>      The second part of your scenario - automatic
>      interchange linkage is also facilitated by CAM
>      templates - and here is where the UID mechanism
>      is vital. This allows you to have agent software
>      that matches UIDs in target and source nouns.
>      Then there are the noun definitions themselves -
>      we're working on that in SCM at the moment.
>      That is the other piece of the puzzle needed by
>      CAM and the agent - to be able to automatically
>      pull the facet and predicate information for a
>      given UID of a noun - and then apply those
>      rules to the mapping. The OWL work in SCM
>      is also very important to be able to classify and
>      relate like / equivalent / and similar parts so the
>      software agent can determine that a UID from
>      one domain is actually related to a UID from
>      another.
> 
>      The peices are there - what is needed as ever
>      is projects and funding to validate it and complete
>      the detail implementation.
> 
>      DW
> 
>      ----- Original Message -----
>      From: "Chiusano Joseph" <chiusano_joseph@bah.com>
>      To: <regrep@lists.oasis-open.org>
>      Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 2:29 PM
>      Subject: [regrep] Dynamic Discovery/Binding/Invocation
> 
>           The following question might sound silly coming from someone who knows
>           our spec so well, but it's a usage scenario that I just had to begin to
>           think about.
> 
>           Is anyone using ebXML Registry for dynamic discovery/binding/invocation
>           of Web Services? More specifically:
> 
>           - A Web Service would dynamically discover another Web Service;
> 
>           - It would use the discovered Web Service's interface definitions (e.g.
>           WSDL document) to dynamically construct message definitions that conform
>           to the discovered Web Service's interface definitions;
> 
>           - It would then map its data to these messages definitions and invoke
>           the discovered Web Service;
> 
>           If no one is using an ebXML Registry this way, how close are we to this?
>           It seems to me that the "dynamically constructed messages definitions",
>           and - even more so - the dynamic mapping, would be challenging. Does
>           this fall more under semantic technologies? If so, will it ever be
>           possible?
> 
>           Thanks,
>           Joe
>           --
>           Kind Regards,
>           Joseph Chiusano
>           Associate
>           Booz | Allen | Hamilton
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Kind Regards,
Joseph Chiusano
Associate
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