I052: Use of Business Rating Not Clear

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Issu # I052

Realted issue: I048

Original Message:
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From: William Cox wtcox@CoxSoftwareArchitects.com
Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2009 23:05:58 -0400
To: soa-eerp@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: [soa-eerp] NEW Issue: Use of Business Rating Not Clear


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Protocol: rating

Artifact: spec

Type: design

Title: Use of Business Rating Not Clear

Description:

BusinessRating-v1.0-spec-wd05.pdf

The use of BusinessRating is not clear from the specifications. The use 
case document (proposed in the Related Issue) would help a great deal. 
The bidirectional nature, communicating both a claimed set of 
credentials+ratings and (apparently) a validated set of 
credentials+ratings is confusing in that it uses the same instance to 
communicate two different things.

The two way usage is also confusing in that it follows the "peek/poke" 
model of setting parts of a data structure and returning it; if this is 
indeed what's being done in the intended use, it should be changed to 
something more appropriate for the SOA/web services environment.

Related issues:
Use Case Document and additional justification

Proposed Resolution:

Refactor to avoid the confusing two way use. Add rationale in a 
non-normative appendix to explain and justify the choice made.


bill cox
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