[wsbpel-abstract] Groups - 2004-08-23_Terminology for Abstract BPEL.doc uploaded

["Tony Fletcher" <tony_fletcher@btopenworld.com>]

Dear Ivana, Monica and others,

First, please find Rania's contributions to me attached.  Basically one of
the documents contains comments on the whole bundle of terms that I produced
the first time around and the second is a curtailed version suggesting some
other terms that need definition.  I have taken both of these into account
in the version I produced today.

If I have produced a document containing too many terms I actually think
that that is a good place to start.  I knocked a few out at Rania's
suggestion.  So I would encourage you to define the sub set that you think
we really need to home in on.  I could then split the table into two - the
first rank terms and the 'also rans' - I would keep the also rans in for one
iteration in case we find that we do need a term from that set, but will
knock out any we all agree are not required going forward.  In spite of
Ivana's pessimism I think we could very quickly come to an agreed set of
useful terms.  I think we could then produce useful definitions of those
terms - I am sure not 'word perfect' but useful approximations.  At that
point I would agree with Ivana we should offer them to the full TC as an
output from the informal group.  It would then be up to the full TC to
decide how to take forward (if at all).  Personally I think that the main
BPEL spec should define (possibly in an appendix as this seems to be the
style for OASIS specifications) the key terms that it uses with meanings
that are not identical to what you would find in a dictionary (if a term is
used as in common - dictionary - usage then of course it does not need to be
specially defined).

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-----Original Message-----
From: Monica Martin [mailto:Monica.Martin@Sun.COM] 
Sent: 23 August 2004 17:42
To: tony_fletcher@btopenworld.com
Cc: wsbpel-abstract@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: Re: [wsbpel-abstract] Groups - 2004-08-23_Terminology for Abstract
BPEL.doc uploaded


Tony,
I would agree with Ivana, as many of these definitions are clearly outside
of the scope of consideration for a glossary related to abstract business
processes (and BPEL for that matter). I would recommend we concentrate on
those terms relevant to our effort for abstract processes.  I started to
define a subset but didn't want to do so completely unless the team had made
a decision in that regard.

Tony, in the interim, can you please provide Rania Khalaf's comments so we
can understand the full context here.

Thank you.

----- Original Message -----
From: tony_fletcher@btopenworld.com
Date: Monday, August 23, 2004 6:32 am
Subject: [wsbpel-abstract] Groups - 2004-08-23_Terminology for Abstract
BPEL.doc uploaded

> The document 2004-08-23_Terminology for Abstract BPEL.doc has been 
> submitted by Tony Fletcher (tony_fletcher@btopenworld.com) to the 
> WSBPEL Abstract List document repository.
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> Document Description:
> This is the current working draft version of the glossary for BPEL 
> (particularly abstarct process aspects) produced by the informal group 
> on abstract processes.  Comments welcome - to the abstract
> process informal group mailing list please.   Best regards Tony
> 
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