Re: [sdd] Groups - Dictionary and profile discussion (dictionaryProfile.ppt) uploaded

[Julia McCarthy <julia@us.ibm.com>]

Jason,

I created this list of questions and comments on the profile doc last week - before today's discussion on profiles and properties. That discussion sort of answered some of these questions. I still feel a need for it to be more explicit. There is also - for a consistency check - a list of things that the spec (as of revision 79) claims are communicated by profiles.

• How do you map a particular software product to a type?
• How do you know that a particular software product is supported by the runtime, i.e. can be discovered? Is the assumption that if its type is in the profile, it can be discovered? That would mean all products of type "Application" are discoverable by the runtime. I can't imagine that ever being a true statement.
• How do you know which/if properties of a particular software product can be discovered by a runtime?
• For properties that cannot be discovered, a runtime will probably provide a means for the SDD author to pass through discovery code. How is this possibility, format and applicability communicated?

From the spec - things currently claimed to be communicated by profiles:

• supported artifact types (Also, Are the required arguments and format always known precisely just by artifact type? If not, need to express this somehow, somewhere.)
• How to understand and compare version strings for particular software. (or just the ability to do so without explanation of how???)
• discovery of resource whose type is in the profile
• communication of valid host-hosted relationships between resources
• ability to discover a particular property

Julia McCarthy
Install Strategy and Development
julia@us.ibm.com  
877-261-0391

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Subject	[sdd] Groups - Dictionary and profile discussion (dictionaryProfile.ppt) uploaded

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