Draft Agenda for Assembly F2F Meeting, Redwood Shores, 22/23 January 2008

[Mike Edwards <mike_edwards@uk.ibm.com>]

Folks,

Here is an initial attempt at the agenda
for the F2F meeting - please feel free to add/change/remove items:


1. SCA Assembly Specification - proposed
changes in form and ordering

WD-02 of the Assembly specification
contains a proposal for a reworked version of
the specification - not changing the
normative content, but certainly changing the
layout and content.  Need to agree
on making this significnat change.

2. SCA Assembly Conformance statements
and Test Suite

- need to establish a path for conformance:
 for example what is
mandatory and what is optional - for
example, are there "groups" of optional
elements that must all be not supported
or all supported?
- need to define the form and content
of the test suite and
establish a working plan

3. The Dynamic behaviour of the SCA
Domain

- need to work through the dynamic aspects
of the SCA Domain and establish
whether new rules, new interfaces are
required.  It is clear from discussions that
the dynamic nature of the Domain is
not adequately described in the current
specification.

4. Callbacks and Conversational Interfaces

- is the current functionality for callbacks
and for conversational interfaces too
complex and too hard to understand?
 Can a simpler set of features be 
described that will make it easier to
understand and to use
- note that there may be relationship
between this item and some existing
issues (ISSUE-33 in Assembly for example)

5. Specific Major Issues:

ISSUE-1 Is binding.sca always present?
ISSUE-4 Dynamic change of callbacks
ISSUE-24 textual sca:include not sufficient
ISSUE-27 Default URI construction rules
aren't consistentwith compatible service evolution
ISSUE-31 Wiring from a reference with
no binding to a service with a binding
ISSUE-33 Long-Running Request-Response
Operations



Yours,  Mike.

Strategist - Emerging Technologies, SCA & SDO.
Co Chair OASIS SCA Assembly TC.
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