Issue - 113 - Optional Port Types

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Issue - 113 - Optional Port Types
Status: open

Categories: Syntax and validation

Date added: 25 Mar 2004

Submitter: Yaron Y. Goland

Date submitted: 25 March 2004

Description: 

Currently we require that portType be specified on message activities, even though it is redundant, because it is useful for
error checking. But it seems unfair to require programmers to constantly specify portType if they don't want or need the
extra error checking.

As such this issue proposes that portType be made optional. If the portType attribute is specified on a message activity
then the BPEL validator MUST check that the value of the portType matches the value for the relevant role in the partnerLink
definition. If the specified value for portType does not match its expected value then the BPEL MUST be rejected.

Changes: 25 Mar 2004 - new issue

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