RE: requirements summary

Ricky:

It is also interesting to introduce the perspective of why a multi-party
can be used for?

Both a multi-party and binary can be used to represent what is going to
happen (see Assaf's presentation on causality). 

A binary collaboration can easily be used as part of an agreement, as
well as to configure run-time engine that "monitor" the choreography
(firewall concept).

In the case of a multi-party, we might want to ask whether the goal is
simply to represent what is going to happen such that each party can
infer what they need to do. Hence decompose the multi-party into
bilateral behavior (which will itself be decomposed in unilateral
behavior). 

Is there a need to establish multi-party agreements based on a
multi-party choreography definition? 

At the run-time engine level, things gets far more complicated because
unless there is a party that touches all the "bilateral choreographies",
it is impossible without special run-time to "monitor" the multi-party
choreography. So the question arise, is the goal of a multi-party
choreography specification to allow configuration of run-time engines?

In think in the light of this, we should not conclude that binary is a
special case of multi-party. They may well have both distinct features
(control flow?) and applications.

I am also wondering if the group wants to keep as a requirement that
says that in the choreography specification there is no distinction
between the choreography involving "internal" services as opposed to
external services. A separate layer of the specification should allow
for annotating that this particular message exchange is external and may
have more qualifiers. However, at the pure choreography specification
level, the choreographies should not be distinguished.

Cheers,

Jean-Jacques 
 
 

>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: public-ws-chor-request@w3.org
[mailto:public-ws-chor-request@w3.org]
>>On Behalf Of Ricky Ho
>>Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 7:06 PM
>>To: jdart@tibco.com; Daniel_Austin@grainger.com
>>Cc: public-ws-chor@w3.org
>>Subject: Re: requirements summary
>>
>>
>>I was originally thinking that a multi-party choreography can always
be
>>broken down into multiple "inter-dependent" bi-party choreography.
But I
>>am convinced that this is NOT always possible.
>>
>>See
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ws-chor/2003Mar/0052.html
>>
>>So I think bi-party choreography is a special case of multi-party
>>choreography.  Bi-party choreography has some interesting properties
that
>>can simplify the modeling.  (e.g. Bi-Party choreography doesn't need
to
>>worry about dynamic participation because any change of a binding can
>>simply terminate the choreography).
>>
>>I think we should covered multi-party choreography.  In additional, we
may
>>also need to investigate this special subset called bi-party
choreography.
>>
>>Best regards,
>>Ricky
>>
>>At 02:28 PM 3/24/2003 -0800, Jon Dart wrote:
>>
>>>Daniel_Austin@grainger.com wrote:
>>>>2. Multi-party vs. bilateral choreography: there is some skepticism
>>>>that modelling bilateral interactions is sufficient.
>>>>       I certainly don't think that is it sufficient to model only
>>bilateral
>>>>transactions. Many business transactions have multiple actors, and
we
>>want
>>>>to build standards that will work for common service transaction
models.
>>>
>>>Note that it is not exactly all or nothing here. BPSS for example
>>supports
>>>"MultiParty Collaborations", but does so by composing them out of
"Binary
>>>Collaborations".
>>>
>>>--Jon
>>>
>>>

Received on Tuesday, 25 March 2003 10:35:18 UTC