Re: Hypermedia workflow from Walden Mathews on 2002-12-20 (www-ws-arch@w3.org from December 2002)

From: Walden Mathews <waldenm@optonline.net>
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 17:26:33 -0500
To: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>, "Champion, Mike" <Mike.Champion@SoftwareAG-USA.com>
Cc: www-ws-arch@w3.org
Message-id: <005101c2a876$da5b0280$1702a8c0@WorkGroup>

> Anyhow, it's not needed in order to *execute* the process, which seems
> to me to be the important thing.

It may be needed or desired to estimate the cost of executing the process,
but as the BPEL is a specification of the process and not the process
itself,
it's vulnerable to that evil force that makes specifications inaccurate with
respect to the implementations supposedly backing them.

WM

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