RE: [asap] Conference call today 866-897-2934 room *6232329*

I just wanted to follow up on one of Keith's comments below 
since I was unable to participate in the conference call earlier this week. I 
can confirm that I will be working on the production of the demo scenarios (one 
for ASAP only and one for a full Wf-XML interop). I am hopeful that I should be 
able to make some progress on this in the fairly short term as I have access to 
a resource who can assist me for a limited time.

 

Best regards

 

Justin

From: Keith Swenson 
[mailto:] 
Sent: 16 March 2004 
17:09
To: ASAP (E-mail)
Cc: Jeff Cohen (E-mail); 
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Subject: [asap] Conference call today 
866-897-2934 room *6232329*

ASAP TC 
Members

 

We will be holding 
our conference call again today at the normal time (in about an 
hour):

    
Pacific: 10am

    
Eastern: 1pm

    
GMT: 6pm

 

call in number: 
866-897-2934,  international: 205-354-0293

room 
number   *6232329*

 

Status 
Report

 

  
The WfMC working 
  group 4 (WfXML) had a good meeting last week in New York.  
  
The progress that 
  ASAP TC has made has been reported there.  
  
The WfMC has made 
  progress in arrangements for a interoperability demonstration.  
  Brainstorm group is happy to provide the venu for the event at the Berlingame 
  Conference in June.  We have been promised a plenary track session to 
  explain the situation and then demonstrate the interaction, and finally to 
  announce the results of who participated successfully. 
  
Discussion was that 
  this is more like a "test" than a "demo".  We have been using the two 
  terms interchangeably. 
  
A signup form has 
  been provided on the web for "Observers" to sign up, we had 57 signed up as of 
  last week, some quite important.  Effort still continuing to get all the 
  right government representatives and analysts.   http://www.wfmc.org/standards/wfxml_demo.htm 

  
A demo client has 
  been developed by Jeff Cohen.  He read the XSD and WSDL into a .Net class 
  generator, and succeeded in producing both a simple server as well as a web 
  based client UI that allows one to call on an ASAP service.  The 
  trickiest part is the context and result data.  When I tried out the 
  client last week the only thing left was providing a solution for variable 
  context data structures, that should be available soon.  The great thing 
  about a .Net implementation is that if we have open-source implementations, 
  and Java implementations, we can clearly show interoperability across those 
  camps. 
  
John Fuller has 
  made progress on the open source implementaiton.  The next step is to 
  actually demonstrate Jeff's client talking to John's server.  
  
  
WfMC Workflow 
  Handbook 2004 has been published, and one chapter is on the subject of "ASAP 
  and WfXML Cookbook" as a guide to help people with process engines to 
  implement these protocols. 
  
There is a 
  TREMENDOUS increase in interest now that we are visible with the demonstration 
  in June. 
  
Moshe Silverstein 
  has lost his OASIS membership (due to leaving iWay) and can no longer 
  participate as secretary.  Anyone interested in getting some recognition 
  for the work they are already putting into the group?  The position is 
  available.  Moshe did still agree to help put together a participant 
  brochure.

Action 
Items

  
Need to refresh the 
  specification document.  The progress on implementations have fixed some 
  errors in the XSD and WSDL files.  These need to be folder in.  
  Also, we made a motion in December to make the spec publicly available, and 
  that never happened due to reorganization of the leadership.  I have 
  stalled on following through because I want to be sure I have updated the 
  document in response to all the input we have received. 
  
Participant 
  brochure.  Now is the time to canvas the industry and make sure that 
  everyone is invited to the demonstration.  I don't want anyone coming to 
  us later asking why we kept the demonstration a secret.  A 
  participant brochure will help us do this because it will lay out the 
  expectations in terms of responsibilities and benefits.  I am sure I can 
  get this posted on the WfMC website when it is ready -- makes distribution 
  easier. 
  
Demo 
  scenario.  Jon Pyke of Staffware committed to updating an earlier WfMC 
  interoperability scenario to include ASAP and WfXML 2.0 specific details for 
  use in this demonstration.  Justin Brunt is likely to be the person who 
  follows through on this.  I had some discussions with him last week in 
  New York, and he is keen to get started. 
  
Web Conferences - Brainstorm has offered to run a couple of web seminars 
  in the coming weeks to help educate those interested in what the protocol is 
  all about.  We will need so people to help present at those 
  sessions.  It is all part of building up the hype before the event in 
  order to assure that best level of participation. 
  
Press release. The 
  WfMC external relations committee want to make a press release announcing the 
  event and to generate interest in it. 
  
Get test client 
  on-line.  I am trying to set up a computer here at Fujitsu to expose the 
  test client to the Internet for general use, but as usual there are 
  difficulties.  I will certainly have this on line before June, but, if 
  anyone has a system with IIS accessible from the Internet, the client 
  application is easy to install and does not take many resources.  It is 
  an opportunity to show that your organization is playing a key role, without 
  having to do much work!  Let me know if you would like to host the test 
  client. 
  
Early interop tests 
  - as other systems become available we want to start testing early -- before 
  June.  Let's start coordinating this.

Hope to hear from 
you all at 10am.

Keith D Swenson, 
Fujitsu 
Software Corporation 
1250 E. Arques Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94085
(408) 
746-6276   mobile: (408) 859-1005 

 

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