Re: [wsbpel] So what is the scope for WS-BPEL?

[Steve Ross-Talbot <steve@enigmatec.net>]

Totally agree. Hence the "Any comments with respect to further 
tightening or is this sufficient?" at the end of my email.

I looked over Satish's ppt and yes it is a good start.

Focussing on goals is something I like. It keeps things crisp and clear.

Are we likely to use Critical Success Factors (CSF) as a technique for 
drilling down together with use case harvesting?

Cheers

Steve T

On Friday, May 30, 2003, at 02:21  pm, David RR Webber - XML ebusiness 
wrote:

> Steve,
>
> With respect - this is exactly my point - and why we need to
> clarify this MUCH further - the sentences you quote below are
> just way to nebulous and hard to fathom - see my notes.
>
> The challenge here - having waved the two foot wide roller
> brush of these four sentences - is to break this down into
> tangible meaningful goals, audience, deliverables, and
> most importantly the exclusions.
>
> We've made a good start on this IMHO with the PPT Satish
> posted, but now we need more, and specifically to combine
> it with the "What is BPEL?" outline and drilldown into those
> tough questions.
>
> Thanks, DW.
>
> Message text written by Steve Ross-Talbot
>> The scope of the Web Services Business Process Execution Language
> Technical Committee is the support of process mechanisms in the
> following areas:
>
>         * Sequencing of process activities, especially Web service
> interactions
>
>>>> This is not clear, what other type of process activities, apart from
> web services,
>  or does 'especially' mean only?  What is the context of the process
> activities?
>
>         * Correlation of messages and process instances
>
>>>> Should this not be the other way around?  The processes control fhe
> message instances?
>
>         * Recovery behavior in case of failures and exceptional 
> conditions
>
>>>> Where are these exceptional conditions occuring?  Anywhere?  I 
>>>> think we
> mean exception,
> not exceptional BTW.
>
>         * Bilateral Web service based relationships between process 
> roles
>
>>>>  This statement just does not make any grammatical sense - its
> technobabble.
>
>

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