BPEL: Technical Issue for F2F or beyond...

[Fred Carter <fred.carter@amberpoint.com>]

Yet another topic to consider for the this or another meeting.

BPEL introduces the notion of properties & property aliases.  This 
combination provides powerful expressive capabilities for "important 
concepts" to a process.  This information is expected, at present, to be 
distributed between the BPEL definition (the properties) and the WSDL 
definitions (the property aliases).

In practice, it is likely that some number of processes will refer to 
the same properties, but that these BPEL files may not be aware of one 
another.  Thus, it would be good to explore the ability to associate 
multiple properties with a single property alias.

Part of this work may involve determining how to map different type 
specifications (which may be (probably must be) structurally "similar", 
but named differently) that are associated with the property definition.

This is probably a lower-level issue, not required to be addressed early 
on.  However, we should consider it for usability purposes.

/fred
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Fred Carter / AmberPoint, Inc.

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