Danny,
Sure, I have no problem with a better
name.
@ignore sounds fine to me.
Yours, Mike.
Strategist - Emerging Technologies, SCA & SDO.
Co Chair OASIS SCA Assembly TC.
IBM Hursley Park, Mail Point 146, Winchester, SO21 2JN, Great Britain.
Phone & FAX: +44-1962-818014 Mobile: +44-7802-467431
Email:
From:
Danny van der Rijn <>
To:
Mike Edwards/UK/IBM@IBMGB
Cc:
OASIS BPEL <>
Date:
08/09/2009 18:13
Subject:
Re: [sca-bpel] [NEW ISSUE] Need to add
Capability to indicate that a PartnerLink should be ignored when introspecting
the ComponentType of a BPEL Process
+1 to the issue.
-1 to the proposed name. IMO it should be something like @notInComponentType
- but shorter ;-) possibly @ignore. @skip just doesn't
sit right on my ear.
Mike Edwards wrote:
Raiser:
Mike Edwards
Target:
sca-bpel-1.1-spec-cd02.doc
Description:
Currently, any declaration of a partnerLink within a BPEL process results
in a <service/> or a <reference/> appearing in the componentType
of the
BPEL process.
This is not desirable in all circumstances:
- it may be that a BPEL process is written with an inner loop, where the
inner loop is implemented as a nested <scope/>. In this inner
loop, it may
be that a partnerLink is declared within the nested scope and used purely
as a "local variable" within the loop, for example where it is
a reference
and the reference target/EPR is assigned to it from the contents of a variable
held in an outer scope.
In these circumstances, the partnerLink in the inner loop is shadowing
a partnerLink in the outer scope - logically it represents the same partnerLink
reference as the partnerLink in the outer scope.
At present, SCA cannot handle a situation such as this - the inner partnerLink
is introspected as a <reference/> and so is the outer partnerLink
- this
means 2 references appear when only one is called for.
To change this, it is necessary to provide a capability for the writer
of a BPEL process to indicate that a given partnerLink should NOT be used
to introspect a <service/> or a <reference/> in the componentType.
Proposal:
Add a new SCA BPEL extension attribute that can be used to annotate a <partnerLink/>
element.
@skip
boolean - default value is false
When @skip="true", the <partnerLink/> element is ignored
when introspecting the compoenntType of the BPEL Process.
The changes are shown in this marked up version of CD02, where the changes
are in Section 3.3 and Appendix A.
Yours, Mike.
Strategist - Emerging Technologies, SCA & SDO.
Co Chair OASIS SCA Assembly TC.
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