- From: Daniel Elenius <daele@ida.liu.se>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 11:34:05 +0200
- To: public-sws-ig@w3.org
> This sounds bizarre, as one could argue that a profile provides the > black-box representation of a service (in addition to operational / > non-functional parameters), whereas the process model provides a > glass box view. As a consequence they are intimately related, thus > necessitating that the author of a process to be aware of or keep > track of the related profiles. In fact, what is the utility of > having a profile that differs (and possibly contradicts) the process > model, other than perhaps to optimise the behaviour of a given > mechanism for a given matchmaker or discovery service? If the Profile is a black-box view of a service, and the process a glass-box view, what is the purpose of the SimpleProcess class? Is it really needed? Isn't the purpose of SimpleProcess to provide a "black-box" view of a CompositeProcess? /Daniel
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