Fwd: Hello from Hongbing

I shall contact Hongbing and set out what we need to get done.

Cheers

Steve T

Begin forwarded message:

> From: "Hongbing Wang" <hbw@seu.edu.cn>
> Date: 28 November 2007 02:33:30 GMT
> To: "Steve Ross-Talbot" <steve@pi4tech.com>
> Cc: "Patrick Hung" <Patrick.Hung@uoit.ca>, 康祖令  
> <zelkey@163.com>, <zelkey@msn.com>
> Subject: Re: Hello from Hongbing
>
> Hi Steve,
> We are interested in this. We hope to collaborate with you to move  
> WS-CDL to a standard .Could you tell us about your plan and  
> approach to do so? What can we do for you?
> Many thanks and best regards,
> Hongbing
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Steve Ross-Talbot
> To: Hongbing Wang
> Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 4:34 PM
> Subject: Re: Hello from Hongbing
>
> Congratulations.
>
> I have added the project as a link to my blog which is at:
>
> http://pi4tech.blogspot.com/
>
> Is there any chance we can do the interop testing to move WS-CDL to  
> a standard and out of Candidate Recommendation?
>
> We can help and guide as needed but you guys would need to do the  
> work and write up.
> I don't think it will take more than a few days (at most a week) do  
> do it all including the write up.
>
> Let me know what you can do?
>
>
> Best regards
>
> Steve T
>
> On 27 Nov 2007, at 03:23, Hongbing Wang wrote:
>
>>
>> home
>> news
>> download
>> documents
>> about us
>> WS-CDL+
>>
>> Execution Engine
>>
>> Packages for downloading
>>
>> wscdl-ee-0.1.zip
>> More...
>> Documents
>>
>> WS-CDL+ Execution Engine User Guide: Get Started
>> WS-CDL+: An Extended WS-CDL Execution Engine for Web Service  
>> Collaboration
>> WS-CDL+ for web service collaboration
>> More...
>> Welcome to the WS-CDL+ Execution Engine Project
>>
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>> WS-CDL+ Execution Engine is based upon the WS-CDL specification by  
>> W3C with six aspects of extension mechanisms, which are variable  
>> initialization, user-defined functions, extended interaction  
>> method, timer, debugging/exception and implicit finalization  
>> mechanism. This project aims at providing an implementation of the  
>> WS-CDL+ execution engine, which can be run as a plug-in on such as  
>> application servers as Tomcat or JBoss.
>>
>> We've advanced the current state of the Web service collaboration  
>> technology by addressing the following two issues: a) A prototype  
>> implementation of a WS-CDL+ execution engine. The study of WS-CDL  
>> calls for an execution engine; so that we can experiment on the  
>> properties we are working on, and develop applications using WS- 
>> CDL. The availability of a WS-CDL execution engine is also crucial  
>> to bring WS-CDL into application field, enabling a WS-CDL document  
>> to run on servers. Moreover, with the prototype system,  
>> researchers and developers are able to simulate their choreography  
>> process and get the results of choreography in a single computer  
>> without having to interact with the real WS-CDL/WS-CDL+  
>> participants, which makes testing and debugging WS-CDL/WS-CDL+  
>> documents easy. And b) the extension of the WS-CDL specification  
>> into WS-CDL+. It is no debut that the idea underlying WS-CDL is  
>> fascinating; however, when it comes to the application field, its  
>> expressiveness and usability become questionable. To enhance it in  
>> this way, we introduce six extended functionalities into the WS-CDL 
>> + execution engine, including the user-defined functions, the  
>> interaction model extensions, the implicit finalization mechanism,  
>> and etc.
>>
>> Website for WS-CDL+ execution engine comes into being
>>
>> October 15, 2007
>>
>> In this website, we'll provide the projects' progress message as  
>> well as software downloading, user guides and research papers.  
>> Thanks to Prof. Hongbing Wang from Southeast University for  
>> providing server spaces.
>>
>> WS-CDL+ execution engine 0.1 (prototype system) released
>>
>> May 28, 2007
>>
>> We are glad to announce the availability of the prototype system  
>> of WS-CDL+ execution engine Version 0.1. This release implements  
>> most functionalities of the WS-CDL specification plus six aspects  
>> of extension mechanisms of WS-CDL+. Any suggestions on this  
>> release are welcomed to feedback to zelkey@msn.com.
>>
>> Copyright (c) 2007. All rights reserved.
>>
>>
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