WfMC_20070206_Meeting

 

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Public Description - WfMC_20070206_Meeting

WfMC Meeting, Feb 6 through 8, 2007

Schedule & Locations

Monday, February 5, 2007

WfMC Seminar: BPM in Practice\\ 8:00am to 5:00pm\\ Biltmore Hotel & Suites\\ 2151 Laurelwood Road\\ Santa Clara, CA 95054\\ 408-988-8411\\

Tuesday, February 6, 2007

WfMC Member Meeting\\ Fujitsu TRIOLE Integration Center\\ 09:00 -12:00 Technical Committee Meeting\\ 1:00 -17:00 Joint WfMC/OMG BPMI TC Meeting\\ 19:00 - 22:00 Traditional Dinner Outing (Location TBD)\\

Wednesday, February 7, 2007

WfMC Member Meeting\\ Fujitsu TRIOLE Integration Center\\ 09:00 -16:00 Technical Committee Meeting (con?t)\\ 09:00 -16:00 External Relations Committee\\ 16:00 -17:00 Joint TC / ERC Meeting\\

Thursday, February 8, 2007

WfMC Member Meeting\\ Fujitsu TRIOLE Integration Center\\ 09:00 -12:00 Steering Committee Meeting\\

Attendees

The following people volunteered their time to attend the meeting and through this participation helped further the goals of the WfMC. The WfMC extends thanks and gratitude.

  • Mike Amend, BEA
  • Philippe Betschart, W4 (World Wide Web Workflow)
  • Justin Brunt, TIBCO
  • Carl Hillier, Fujitsu Computer Systems
  • Kwang-Hoon Kim, Kyonggi University
  • Ken Mei, Global 360
  • Yonah Hirschman, Pearson
  • Michael zur Muehlen, Stevens Institute of Technology
  • Nathaniel Palmer, WfMC
  • Bob Puccinelli, DST Systems
  • Yoshihisa Sadakane, NEC Soft Ltd.
  • Rober Shapiro, Global 360
  • Keith Swenson, Fujitsu Computer Systems
  • Tomasz Wrzosek, Projekty Bankowe POLSOFT

Technical Committee Result Summary

Working Group 1: XPDL

Led by Robert Shapiro of Global 360.

Conformance to XPDL 2.0: How can implementers of XPDL show that they implement the spec correctly? How can WfMC assure that when a vendor claims they support the spec, that the implementation is correct? Criteria for XPDL 2.0 Conformance are required to answer these questions. Michael zur Muehlen put together a set of slides outlining conformance as being in three categories: exporters of XPDL, parsers of XPDL, enactment of XPDL processes. We need separate criteria on these three categories. Each category needs a conformance criteria list. Implementors will self-evaluate (for now) and indicate whether they do or do not implement a certain aspect of XPDL. How do we create this list of criteria? Suggestion was made that a starting point would be to make a list of tags that exist in XPDL. Such a list was drawn up, and each tag was discussed whether it was the main topic of a criterium. In cases were multiple tags were logically connected a single criterium is made for the group of tags. This set the direction for work that can continue outside of the meeting.

XPDL 2.1 Extensions: The list of XPDL extensions proposed to date can be found at XPDL 2.1 Proposals. Discussion took place on: how to specify the URL that indicates it is a Remote Subprocess Node that can call a remote subprocess; how to express the Coordinate Units for the graphical information; how to express Test Values on subprocess parameters so that an engine can simulate the calling of a subprocess without calling it; how to indicate that a particular data field is important for analytics use; how to specify an icon for a custom node type; how to specify that certain data fields are read only. Initial proposal for these extensions are linked.

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