RE: [sca-assembly] Issue 101: Complete the Conformance Section - Commentson Proposal

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

Folks,

Some comments on the proposal:


1)  I think that making a series
of SCA-related documents into conformance points, as per section 12.1,
 is unnecessary and unwise. 

The only point of making these documents
into conformance points is if it is intended to write testcase(s) that
will validate those
documents.  I do not believe that
we have the resources to write such testcases and as a result, the conformance
demands made
here are a waste of time and effort.

What matters is what an SCA runtime
does with the documents - we have that fully specified - and we have testcases
for these claims.


2) Form of the conformance statement
for documents is incorrect.

Should read as follows

"An SCA Composite Document is a
file that MUST have an SCA <composite/> element as its root element
and MUST conform 
to the sca-core-1.1.xsd schema and MUST
comply with the additional constraints on the document contents as defined
in
Appendix C."


3) "SCA Interoperable Packaging
document"

This terminology is not used in the
spec.  "Contribution Packaging using ZIP Packaging format"
would be correct.

Also the normative statement "A
ZIP file containing SCA Documents and other related artifacts which MUST
have a 
SCA Contribution Document as a top level
element."  is simply incorrect.  

Section 11.2.3 states clearly that "it
can contain a top-level "META-INF" directory and a "META-INF/sca-contribution.xml"
file 
and there can also be a "META-INF/sca-contribution-generated.xml"
file in the package."
- so the contribution file is NOT mandatory
and it is certainly not "top level".


4) Item 4 in Section 12.2 - Requirement
to implement the Web services binding.

I'd prefer a looser requirement to implement
ONE of the adopted bindings.  Forcing Web services in all cases seems
more
than is necessary to me.


Yours,  Mike.

Strategist - Emerging Technologies, SCA & SDO.
Co Chair OASIS SCA Assembly TC.
IBM Hursley Park, Mail Point 146, Winchester, SO21 2JN, Great Britain.
Phone & FAX: +44-1962-818014    Mobile: +44-7802-467431  
Email:  mike_edwards@uk.ibm.com

From:	"Martin Chapman" <martin.chapman@oracle.com>
To:	"'Bryan Aupperle'" <aupperle@us.ibm.com>, "'OASIS Assembly'" <sca-assembly@lists.oasis-open.org>
Date:	26/02/2009 14:33
Subject:	RE: [sca-assembly] Issue 101: Complete the Conformance Section

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Bryan,
 
Fair point. Here is another
take. I have also put them into the SCA Assembly TC document archive, as
I mistakenly put the first versions  in the Bindings TC!
 
WORD: http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/sca-assembly/download.php/31432/sca-assembly-1%5B1%5D.1-spec-cd02-Rev5%20-%20ISSUE%20101%20v2.doc
 
PDF: http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/sca-assembly/download.php/31433/sca-assembly-1%5B1%5D.1-spec-cd02-Rev5%20-%20ISSUE%20101%20v2.pdf
 
Martin.
 
From: Bryan Aupperle [mailto:aupperle@us.ibm.com]
Sent: 24 February 2009 19:57
To: 'OASIS Assembly'
Subject: Re: [sca-assembly] Issue 101: Complete the Conformance Section
 

I am a little surprised, given your rather persuasive argument in the Java
TC a couple of weeks ago, that you did not include a contribution as a
conformance target.  It seems to me that if a contribution is going
to conform to a C&I spec, it must also conform to the assembly spec.

Bryan Aupperle, Ph.D.
STSM, WebSphere Enterprise Platform Software Solution Architect

Research Triangle Park,  NC 
+1 919-254-7508 (T/L 444-7508)
Internet Address: aupperle@us.ibm.com

"Martin Chapman" <martin.chapman@oracle.com>

02/24/2009 08:33 AM

To	"'OASIS Assembly'" <sca-assembly@lists.oasis-open.org>
cc
Subject	[sca-assembly] Issue 101: Complete the Conformance Section

 

A proposal can be found at:
 
WORD: http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/sca-bindings/download.php/31382/sca-assembly-1%5B1%5D.1-spec-cd02-Rev5%20-%20ISSUE%20101.doc
PDF: http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/sca-bindings/download.php/31383/sca-assembly-1%5B1%5D.1-spec-cd02-Rev5%20-%20ISSUE%20101.pdf
 
 
Martin.


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