Words we use in talking about abstract BPEL

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Dear 
Colleagues,

 

I have definitely 
gone way over the top on this one so I would ask that you do not look at the 
attached document straight away.  First do this: get a pen or pencil and a 
piece of paper and just jot down the words that you use or you have heard other 
people use as we have talked about a possible abstract Business process 
execution language, its purpose, its uses and its features that you think 
we are using in a special or particular way.

 

Now you can open the 
attached document and see if you can find one, or more, definitions for those (I 
suspect few) terms you have written down.  Please then mail this group (and 
hence me) with your words, whether you liked a definition already in the 
document - or not.

 

I will then move 
definitions that are liked (possibly as modified) to the abstract BPEL section 
(which is currently empty!!!).  Of course if you do not see a definition 
for a term you think we should define (or do not like any offered) then please 
suggest a definition and I will add that in.  When the terms I found in 
other documents have served there purpose (of jogging our thinking) then I will 
make the document a whole lot smaller by deleting them and just retaining the 
ones we have agreed on.

 

{Personally I feel 
the main specification document should define (or reference definitions) any 
words that it uses in a special way and not as in common usage English 
according to the standard dictionary adopted by OASIS (which is ?), but that is 
another issue.}

Best 
Regards,

Tony                           

  
  

    
      

    
      
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