RE: Definition of Choreography

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Prescod [mailto:paul@prescod.net]
> Sent: Saturday, October 19, 2002 9:07 PM
> To: Champion, Mike; www-ws-arch@w3.org
> Subject: Re: Definition of Choreography
> 
> 
> Champion, Mike wrote:
> >...
> > Thoughts anyone?
> 
> Specifying the external interfaces (with or without time-based 
> sequencing) is a completely different problem than scripting a set of 
> web services to accomplish some task. 

For better or worse WSCI uses "choreography" to cover both.  I do agree that
it's becoming clear that we need to disentangle them. I *personally*  [not
wearing co-chair hat] am inclined to focus only on the defininition of the
public interface to choreographed web services (and believe there a majority
want to include time-based sequencing). As Paul says, some people will want
to actually implement the choreographed web services in a scripting
language, some will push for a BPEL-like language, etc.  Just as WSDL just
specifies the interface to a service and doesn't care how it's implemented,
something analogous for "choreography" seems like the minimum needed to
declare victory, at least for the "1.0" version.

Received on Saturday, 19 October 2002 23:19:28 UTC