Overriding Timing Parameters Specified in a Business Process

The BPSS spec. makes use of the timeToAcknowledgeReceipt and 
TimeToAcknowledgeAcceptance attributes to indicate whether the receipt 
acknowledgement / acceptance business signals are to be used, as well as 
their corresponding timeout values.

 

Currently, it is not possible to override these parameters at 
the CPP/CPA level.

 

The RosettaNet architecture team has been investigating the 
possible use of the ebXML MSG, CPPA, and BPSS specs in future versions of the 
RosettaNet Implementation Framework. Most RosettaNet 
solution providers already allow these timing parameters to be customized as 
part of the trading partner agreement in existing implementations.

 

Personally, I think these timing parameters should be 
overridable in the CPPA 1.1 spec. However, this brings up another deficiency in 
the existing spec. BPSS parameters that can be overridden are essentially 
boolean attributes. (In fact, it would be rather cumbersome for a party to 
indicate that it can accept both True and False values for these attributes. 
Essentially, all acceptable combinations would have to be 
enumerated!) There is no established convention to specify 
the range of acceptable values for non boolean attributes as well their 
preferred values. Therefore, it is not clear to me whether such enhancements can 
be introduced easily.

 

-Arvola