RE: GUIDE: Re: WSCL "well-formerdness" concept

Hi Jim,

I agree with you, this is very relevant. I started looking at the document.
It will be interesting to compare it with WSCL, BPML, XLang and WSFL. For
now, I see little difference between all of them.

Cheers,

Said

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Hendler [mailto:hendler@cs.umd.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 11:07 PM
To: Hugo Haas; www-webont-wg@w3.org
Subject: GUIDE: Re: WSCL "well-formerdness" concept


At 11:37 AM -0500 3/20/02, Hugo Haas wrote:
>Hi.
>
>W3C acknowledged last week the WSCL submission[1]. I am writing to you
>to point out some relevance to the work done by the WebOnt WG.
>
>>From the abstract[2]:
>
>    This document specifies the Web Services Conversation Language. WSCL
>    allows the abstract interfaces of Web services, i.e. the business
>    level conversations or public processes supported by a Web service, to
>    be defined. WSCL specifies the XML documents being exchanged, and the
>    allowed sequencing of these document exchanges. WSCL conversation
>    definitions are themselves XML documents and can therefore be
>    interpreted by Web services infrastructures and development tools.
>    WSCL may be used in conjunction with other service description
>    languages like WSDL; for example, to provide protocol binding
>    information for abstract interfaces, or to specify the abstract
>    interfaces supported by a concrete service.
>
>>From the Team comment[3]:
>
>    Section 2.6 introduces the concept of well-formed conversation
>    definitions, which are XML documents validating the WSCL 1.0 schema,
>    describing conversations which have certain constraints on their   
>    interactions and transitions. Well-formed documents being a meaningful
>    term for XML documents, it would be better to call those conversations
>    another way, such as semantically meaningful. The constraints  
>    described for such conversations echo the work done at W3C in the Web
>    Ontology Working Group, and may be described in a computer-readable  
>    way.
>
>Regards,
>
>Hugo
>
>   1. http://www.w3.org/Submission/2002/02/
>   2. http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/NOTE-wscl10-20020314/
>   3. http://www.w3.org/Submission/2002/02/Comment



GUIDE focus group - the WSCL submissions relates to both our agents 
and services use cases and discussions - might be furtile ground for 
some test cases.  I hope you will consider reading this and thnking 
about generating some examples based on it - would be a nice tie of 
our work to Web Services in an emerging area of interest.
  -JH


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