Quick update: 2/10 call

Hello 
all,

 

Believe it or not we 
finally had a call today!  Please accept my apologies for canceling past 
calls - I've been a bit swamped by my "real job" on this 
end...

 

Dieter and I were 
the only ones on the call.  I posted an updated draft of the primer 
here:

 

Here is a list of 
the changes in this version:

  
Replaced Basic 
  Concepts section with scenario from Thomas Erl's book (see Documents section 
  for an MS-Word version of the original source). (Thomas: I tweaked the 
  description of the scenario since the context was hard to follow without 
  having the rest of your book available.) Justification: Thomas' scenario is 
  simpler and I see no reason to simply repeat the scenario used in the spec 
  itself. Since this is a Primer we want things to be simpler, yes? 
  

  
Answered most of the questions in the FAQ with fairly short 
  blurbs. Please review the FAQ - what other questions should we include here? 
  (Note: does anyone want to tackle the "what's changed between 1.1 and 2.0 
  question? Its apparently not going to be included in the actual spec. 
  

  
Added a special 
  thank-you to Thomas in the acknowledgements section (with a short plug for his 
  book that is the source for this content)

Still 
to-do:

  
Format TOC headers 
  within the Basic Concepts section and rebuild the TOC/index (will leave 
  formatting stuff until last)

  
Dieter and Simon 
  have been working on content for the Basic Concepts section and will merge it 
  into the content from Thomas' book

  
Advanced section - 
  Dieter and Simon are 
  planning to develop content for this section as well but have not yet 
  started.  I plan to take an initial crack and generating some content 
  targeting the value of abstract processes for Section 7.2 - let me know if 
  this is something you would like to assist 
  with!

  
Determine if 
  history/goals/etc can be moved into the WS-BPEL spec. I think they 
  should.   I've contacted the spec editing team but nothing came of 
  it.  I may simply join the spec ed team and drive the effort push this 
  stuff into the spec myself..

Action Items for 
everyone before the next call:

  
Have a look at the 
  current draft posted at http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/wsbpel-primer/download.php/16618/wsbpel-primer-draft-05.rtf and 
  post some feedback.  Feel free to make changes to this doc (make sure 
  "track changes" is enabled).  I'm especially interested in getting 
  feedback on:

  
    
The FAQ: what 
    questions are missing here?  How accurate are the answers I plugged 
    in?

    
Suitability of 
    Thomas Erl's scenario.  Again, its much simpler than the scenario in 
    the spec but given this is a primer I think a simpler scenario is 
    appropriate.  What do you think?

    
Read over the 
    content from Thomas' book that I plugged into the Basic Concepts section - 
    is it sufficient?

  
Let me know if you 
  would like to assist with Section 7.2, focusing on the value of abstract 
  processes.

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Sorry again about the long wait 
between calls.   

 

Thanks!  

 

John