Issue 27: Updated Conformance Proposal

5        Conformance

 

There are two categories of artifacts that this specification
defines conformance for: SCA Documents and SCA Runtimes.

 

5.1 SCA WS-BPEL Document.

 

A SCA WS-BPEL Document is a document that complies with the
requirements defined by WS-BPEL[2.0] and MAY include the SCA WS-BPEL
extenstions defined in Section 3. Any document using these extensions must
comply with the sca-bpel schema and any other constraints defined by this
specification.

 

5.2 SCA Runtimes

 

There are two conformance options defined by this specification:

1.       Implementations of an SCA WS-BPEL Runtime

2.       Implementations of an SCA Extended WS-BPEL Runtime.

 

5.2.1 SCA WS-BPEL Runtime

 

An implementation that claims to conform to an SCA WS-BPEL
Runtime MUST meet the following conditions:

1.       The implementation MUST meet all the conformance
requirements defined by the SCA Assembly Model Specification [Assembly] i.e. it
MUST be a conforming SCA Runtime.

2.       The implementation MUST be a compliant WS-BPEL
Processor as defined in [WS-BPEL 2.0]. It must accept and process WS-BPEL 2.0
process descriptions in a manner defined by WS-BPEL 2.0.

3.       The SCA BPEL extensions defined in this specification
MUST be treated as WS-BPEL 2.0 extensions. WS-BPEL process descriptions
containing the SCA BPEL extensions MAY be rejected.

4.       With the exception of the SCA BPEL extensions, the
implementation MUST comply with all the normative statements in this
specification (appendix ?), notably all the MUST statements have to be
implemented.

          

5.2. 2 SCA Extended WS-BPEL Runtime

 

An implementation that claims to conform to an SCA Extended
WS-BPEL Runtime MUST meet the following conditions:

 

1.       The implementation MUST meet the conditions for an SCA
WS-BPEL Runtime above with the exception that SCA BPEL extensions defined in
this specification MUST be supported. WS-BPEL process descriptions containing
the SCA BPEL extensions MUST NOT be rejected

2.       The implementation MUST support the SCA BPEL extensions
defined in Section 3, and MUST implement them as defined.