[wsbpel] new issue: Inconsistent statements regarding start activities

[Thomas Schulze <ThomasSchulze@de.ibm.com>]

Peter, please add this one to the issues list as sub-issue to 247. Thanks
in advance!

Best regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen,

       Thomas Schulze

Issue - 247.1 - Inconsistent statements regarding start activities
Status: received
Date added: 2 June 2006
Submitter: Thomas Schulze
Date submitted: 2 June 2006
Document: WS-BPEL 2.0 Committee Draft, section 5.5.
Description: Action Item #124 addresses a minor change in one of the
statements regarding start activities. Because this is a normative change
AI #124 will be closed and is addressed by this issue.

Section 5.5 currently states:
"A start activity is a <receive> or a <pick> activity annotated with a
createInstance="yes" attribute. Each business process MUST contain at least
one start activity. See section 10.4 for more details on start activities."

Section 13.1.3 (paragraph Omission) currently states:
"Note that it is allowed to omit the start activity in an Abstract Process
as well (see section 13.1.3. Hiding Syntactic Elements, [5])."

Section 13.4.3 currently states:
"All start activities MUST be defined in a process of this Template
Profile. That is, every IMA with a createInstance="yes" attribute that is
added during Executable Completion  MUST replace an opaque activity with
template:createInstance="yes". No new start activity is allowed to be added
during Executable Completion."

These statements are inconsistent. The first says that EACH business
process must contain at least one start activity. That's not true for
abstract processes.

Submitter's proposal:
Change the text in section 5.5 to say:
"A start activity is a <receive> or a <pick> activity annotated with a
createInstance="yes" attribute. Each executable business process MUST
contain at least one start activity. See section 10.4 for more details on
start activities."

Changes: 2 June 2006 - new issue