RE: Suggestions from Karsten Riemenr

["Welsh, David" <David.Welsh@nordstrom.com>]

Marty,
It would be very useful if 1. was elaborated a little more.
Couldn't 2 and 4 be tied to the same thing ? What's behind WSDL is then left to the individual organization to operate; ie. very elaborate system automation or semi-/manual efforts to create the web service. But WSDL appears very important.
I'd suggest the BP jury is still out on should there even be a procedural 'BP language' like BPML/WSFL/XLANG, or should BP be more a declarative approach which probably resembles more of the real business world.
-Dave


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin W Sachs [mailto:mwsachs@us.ibm.com]
> Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 7:40 AM
> To: ebxml-cppa@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: Suggestions from Karsten Riemenr
> 
> 
> I have received the following suggestions from Karsten Riemer:
> 
> 1. Use of the 'substitution' capability that was added to 
> BPSS at Vienna.
> In
> general this expands to how to have generic business 
> processes, and yet
> have
> easy to process specializations of those for the specific partners.
> 
> 2. Alignment with WSDL. Generically this expands to how to 
> best register
> the
> metadata about a partner's capabilities relative to the BP and its
> documents.
> 
> 3. Alignment with other BP languages like BPML and WFSL. This 
> may seem like
> more of a pure BP issue. But actually BPML may play an 
> important role in
> describing what specifically a partner will do internally in 
> response to an
> ebXML exchange. Generically this expands to how we apply XML 
> to the link
> between b2b and EAI.
> 
> 4. Specification of a Business Service Interface. ebXML phase 
> one shyed
> away
> from specificying the actual software architecture. We just 
> hinted that a
> BSI
> is configured with a CPP. Someone, probably in OASIS should 
> step up to this
> task.
> 
> Items 2 and 4 are clearly CPP-CPA issues.  Item 4 should be joint work
> among CPPA, MSG, and BP.
> I am less certain about items 1 and 3.  I look forward to 
> having Karsten
> participate and explain.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Marty
> 
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