NEW ISSUE: Name of the generated SCA reference for a partnerLinkdeclared with multiRefFrom extension

Title: Name of the generated SCA reference for a partnerLink declared with multiRefFrom extension

 

Target: SCA WS-BPEL  C&I Specification Version 1.1 CD 2 Rev 9

 

Description:

There is no normative statement in the specification for generating name of an SCA reference which corresponds to a partnerLink  that uses the multiRefFrom extension.

 

There is discrepancy in how the name of a reference is generated for a partnerLink with multiRefFrom extension:

Section 2.3.1 uses the name of the variable with multiReference extension as the name of the generated reference. See the text: ‘Else if the name attribute is present on the sca-bpel:multiReference extension …’

Section 3.2 uses the name of the partnerLink as the name of the generated reference. See the text at the bottom of the section: ‘A multi-value reference named “vendorLink” , which his categorized as …”

 

Proposal:

Add a normative statement after the  SBPEL2024 statement: The name of the reference MUST be the value of the name attribute of the partnerLink.

 

Update the sections 2.3.1 and 3.2 to comply with the added normative statement.