RE: Orchestration (was: W3C Web Service Description WG: Requireme nts)

The charter for the WSDWG specifically says that composition of web 
services is out of scope. I don't think it's a particularly big stretch to 
regard "orchestration" as a form of composition.

   jeff
At 07:05 AM 4/5/02, Sadiq, Waqar wrote:


>I am cross-posting this to the architecture group also.  I personally
>believe that a description language and orchestration language belong to
>different stacks in the web services reference model (none exists yet).
>
>I believe that orchestration layer adds a level of business intelligence
>that leverages the web services layer (described by WSDL) but the two are
>not the same.
>
>I vote to defer WSCL to the architecture group for consideration and not
>change the scope of what we are doing with WSDL.
>
>Thanks,
>
>
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jean-Jacques Moreau [mailto:moreau@crf.canon.fr]
>Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 2:18 AM
>To: Jeffrey Schlimmer
>Cc: Web Services Private; Igor.Sedukhin@ca.com
>Subject: Orchestration (was: W3C Web Service Description WG: Requirements)
>
>[Switching to w3c-ws-desc, since this may touch on member confidential
>issues.]
>
>Orchestration brings the question: what are we supposed to do with WSCL [1]?
>This does not seem to be considered out-of-scope [2], and the team's comment
>was that it should be brought to our attention [3]. Does this indicate a
>possible refinent for operations?
>
>Jean-Jacques.
>
>[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/wscl10/
>[2] http://www.w3.org/2002/01/ws-desc-charter
>[3] http://www.w3.org/Submission/2002/02/Comment
>
>Jeffrey Schlimmer wrote:
>
> > R097: I'd suggest change it to "Must". (Now, this is NOT covered by
> > R036!)
> > [jeffsch: I agree that this is part of a general Web Service definition,
> > but I don't agree that this is appropriate to describe in WSDL; it seems
> > to border on orchestration.]
> >
> > -- Igor Sedukhin .. (Igor.Sedukhin@ca.com)

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