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Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: [wsbpel] abstract process strawman]


rania -

while i understand the objection that you and satish have to my 
thoughts, i understand.  i am just worried, as i attempted to say, that 
we are tailoring a syntax that serves an immature technology.

rkhalaf wrote:

> Hi Danny,
>
> Thanks for your doc.
>
> Regarding conformance, we make it very clear that there are many 
> different possible conformance relations that may define them in a 
> paraallel effort as you suggest - but if we have a good way to define 
> a useful one that covers important cases, I think it's useful to have 
> the definition there. If you look at the bottom of the doc you can see 
> that one of the issues was whether to allow one to relate two 
> processes together given a defined relation. This would be too early I 
> think for this version but it shows the direction of the thinking.
>
> The def is not supposed to yield an algorithm directly, but to clearly 
> and intuitively explain what this compliance def is checking for. The 
> algorithm one may use to check "observable compliance" should not a 
> brute force one from the def, and that's quite obvious to tell (you 
> could have infinitely many minimum-no-fault-...-completions). Also, 
> the definition is still being clarified.
>
> Also, the doc is clear that it allows many uses for abstract processes.
>
> Regarding partially defined processes as you describe them, my view is 
> like I explained at the F2F - which is pretty much what Satish's 
> e-mail says.  I'm strongly against this because it hurts the 
> usefulness of abstract processes.
>
> regards,
> Rania
>
> Danny van der Rijn wrote:
>
>> that is very close to the conclusion that i came to as well.  except 
>> that i would prefer that different communities be able to define 
>> their own standard outside of the core spec.  with conformance being 
>> one of those communities.  i just don't get why conformance has 
>> special standing, especially given its infancy.
>>
>> Satish Thatte wrote:
>>
>>> What I heard before is that your customers want to omit anything ? 
>>> which is almost like an editor?s intermediate storage 
>>> representation.  We don?t need to standardize that because it 
>>> doesn?t need to have any semantics beyond editing.
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
>>>
>>>
>>> From: Danny van der Rijn [mailto:dannyv@tibco.com]
>>> Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 12:19 PM
>>> To: Satish Thatte
>>> Cc: wsbpel@lists.oasis-open.org
>>> Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: [wsbpel] abstract process strawman]
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>> that's what we're doing right now, isn't it?
>>>
>>> Satish Thatte wrote:
>>>
>>> So then please describe what you have in mind so we can see the precise
>>>
>>> differences.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>
>>> From: Danny van der Rijn [mailto:dannyv@tibco.com]
>>> Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 8:44 AM
>>>
>>> To: Satish Thatte; wsbpel@lists.oasis-open.org 
>>> <mailto:wsbpel@lists.oasis-open.org>
>>>
>>> Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: [wsbpel] abstract process strawman]
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> btw, the templating that was in the paper didn't really match the
>>> templating that i'm describing which is why i called it out.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Danny van der Rijn wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>>> i was hoping that i misunderstood the intent.  i bothered to be so
>>>> detailed so someone could point out the error in my misunderstanding.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> as far as a list of features, no i don't have one.  they are just
>>>> omitting what they please and providing what they find to be usefully
>>>> portable.  but a concrete example of that that i do know is that they
>>>> are leaving out specifics of the WSDLs.  "you receive an order here,
>>>> and you send a confirmation response."  that's all that you need to
>>>> know at that point.  not what a line item looks like.  not even what
>>>> an order looks like.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Satish Thatte wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>   
>>>>
>>>>> Danny,
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I think your description of the challenge response metaphor for
>>>>> proving conformance represents a misunderstanding of the intent
>>>>> (brute force search among lots of randomly generated possibilities
>>>>> was not the idea).  Moreover, the templating case is explicitly
>>>>> supported in Rania's paper I believe.  Rania and I will address that
>>>>> separately.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> But I am very curious about the specific details your customers would
>>>>>
>>>>>     
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>>>> want to omit while still preserving the meaningfulness of the
>>>>> "process IP" they would be selling.  Do you have a list of features
>>>>> that ought to be allowed for omission?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Satish
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ________________________________
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> From: Danny van der Rijn [mailto:dannyv@tibco.com]
>>>>>
>>>>> Sent: Thu 9/23/2004 8:57 PM
>>>>>
>>>>> To: rkhalaf@watson.ibm.com <mailto:rkhalaf@watson.ibm.com>; 
>>>>> wsbpel@lists.oasis-open.org <mailto:wsbpel@lists.oasis-open.org>;
>>>>> wsbpel-abstract@lists.oasis-open.org 
>>>>> <mailto:wsbpel-abstract@lists.oasis-open.org>
>>>>>
>>>>> Subject: [Fwd: Re: [wsbpel] abstract process strawman]
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> you don't see that every day.  i remembered the attachment, but
>>>>> forgot the inline text.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> the enclosed document is my quick reaction to the abstract
>>>>> presentation from yesterday.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> -------- Original Message -------- Subject:     Re: [wsbpel] abstract
>>>>>
>>>>>     
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>>>> process strawman  
>>>>> Date:     Thu, 23 Sep 2004 20:52:21 -0700  
>>>>> From:     Danny van der Rijn <dannyv@tibco.com> 
>>>>> <mailto:dannyv@tibco.com>
>>>>> <mailto:dannyv@tibco.com>   
>>>>> To:     rkhalaf@watson.ibm.com <mailto:rkhalaf@watson.ibm.com>  
>>>>> CC:     wsbpel@lists.oasis-open.org 
>>>>> <mailto:wsbpel@lists.oasis-open.org>,
>>>>> wsbpel-abstract@lists.oasis-open.org 
>>>>> <mailto:wsbpel-abstract@lists.oasis-open.org>  
>>>>> References:     <41507291.3010200@watson.ibm.com> 
>>>>> <41507291.3010200@watson.ibm.com">mailto:41507291.3010200@watson.ibm.com>
>>>>> <41507291.3010200@watson.ibm.com">mailto:41507291.3010200@watson.ibm.com>   
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> rkhalaf wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>    Hi everyone,    
>>>>>    As promised, here is the abstract process strawman document I
>>>>> have been putting together. This work aspired to define a consistent
>>>>> view of abstract processes  and their use as the basis for continuted
>>>>>
>>>>>     
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>>>> discussion and concrete proposals/resolutions.    
>>>>>    According to the Agenda, tomorrow or Thursday will be when the
>>>>> abstract proc stuff will be discussed.    
>>>>>    Regards,     Rania    
>>>>>   
>>>>>   
>>>>> ________________________________
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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