[xml-dev] OASIS TC Call For Participation: Web Services ComponentModel TC

["Karl F. Best" <karl.best@oasis-open.org>]

A new OASIS technical committee is being formed. The OASIS Web Services
Component Model Technical Committee has been proposed by the following
members of OASIS: Norbert Mikula, DataChannel; Michael Hyman,
DataChannel; Don Robertson, Documentum; Ed Anuff, Epicentric; Dean
Moses, Epicentric; Royston Sellman, HP; Charles Wiecha, IBM; and Sim
Simeonov, Macromedia.

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Karl F. Best
OASIS - Director, Technical Operations
978.667.5115 x206
karl.best@oasis-open.org  http://www.oasis-open.org


PROPOSAL: OASIS WSCM TC

NAME

The name of this Technical Committee shall be the OASIS Web Services
Component Model (WSCM) TC.

PURPOSE

The aims of the WSCM TC shall be as follows:

1. Create an XML and web services centric component model for
interactive web applications. The designs must achieve two main goals:
enable businesses to distribute web applications through multiple
revenue channels, and enable new services or applications to be created
by leveraging existing applications across the Web.

2. To harmonize WSCM as far as practical with existing web application
programming models (e.g. Portals, Macromedia Flash, etc.), with the work
of the W3C (e.g.XForms, DOM, XML Events, XPath, XLink, XML Component API
task force), emerging web services standards (e.g. SOAP, WSDL, WSFL),
and with the work of other appropriate business information bodies.

3. Ensure that WSCM applications can be deployed on any tier on the
network and remain target device and output markup neutral.

4. Ultimately, to promote WSCM to the status of an international
standard for the conduct of XML and Web Services based web application
development, deployment and management.

DELIVERABLES

The primary deliverable of the WSCM TC is a coordinated set of XML
vocabularies and Web Services interfaces that will allow businesses to:
1) deliver web applications to end users through a diversity of
deployment channels: directly to a browser or mobile device, indirectly
through a portal, or by embedding into a 3rd party web application; and
2) Create web applications that can be easily be modified, adapted,
aggregated, coordinated, synchronized or integrated by simple
declarative means to ultimately leverage a worldwide pallet of web
application components.

As currently envisioned, the WSCM work will take place in five phases:

1. A first phase to gather requirements across web application
deployment, development and management vendors.

2. A second phase to define a set of "base" web services interfaces that
can be used to expose web application function and adaptation.

3. A third phase to define a "wiring mechanism" to declaratively specify
web application semantics.

4. A fourth phase to define a set of web services interfaces that can be
used to partition web applications into model, view and control (MVC).

5. A fifth phase to define a set of design patterns to guide WSCM
developers in creating re-useable application components. In addition
the TC will encourage implementations, test suites and interoperability
guidelines.

If the work actually does take place in this form, then it is estimated
that the first, second and third phases will take roughly one year to
complete and that the fourth and fifth phase will take roughly one year.

If phases can be combined or run in parallel, then it is estimated that
delivery of an initial set of specifications will take one to two years.

LANGUAGE

The TC shall conduct its proceedings in English.

MEETINGS

The first meeting of the TC shall take place 7 January 2002 through 9
January 2002 at facilities in Westchester County, New York, donated by
IBM, or at an alternative location in the New York City area chosen to
accommodate the number of participants who register to attend. The date
and time of record for establishing initial voting membership under the
OASIS TC process shall be 7 January 2002 at 2 p.m.

The TC shall meet in person no more often than four times a year and by
telephone at such other times as its members may determine.

It is the intention of the sponsors of the TC to adopt a meeting
schedule that will maximize contact between the persons engaged in the
WSCM work, business experts engaged in the work of W3C, and persons
engaged in the work of other organizations attempting to define XML and
Web Services based web application standards

Prospective participants in the WSCM TC should be ready to commit to a
schedule calling for as many as two meetings annually in North America
and as many as two meetings annually in Europe or Asia.

TC PROPOSERS

The following persons eligible to participate in OASIS technical
committees state that they are committed to the meeting schedule and
purpose stated above:

   Norbert Mikula, DataChannel <norbert@datachannel.com>
   Michael Hyman, DataChannel <michaelh@datachannel.com>
   Don Robertson, Documentum <don.robertson@documentum.com>
   Ed Anuff, Epicentric <ed@epicentric.com>
   Dean Moses, Epicentric <moses@epicentric.com>
   Royston Sellman, HP <royston_sellman@hp.com>
   Charles Wiecha, IBM <wiecha@us.ibm.com>
   Sim Simeonov, Macromedia <simeons@macromedia.com>

CHAIR

The TC shall be chaired by Charles Wiecha.

MEETING SPONSORS

The default sponsors of telephone meetings during the first year of
operation of the TC and face-to-face meetings held at certain North
American cities during the first year of operation of the TC shall be
IBM and HP.  Other meeting sponsors, if any, shall be disclosed on the
publicly visible TC mailing list.