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Subject: Re: [wsbpel] Human editable BPEL?
Then let's just submit use cases and see what we come up with. Here's my use case. Sometimes we do have to manually write, edit or review process definitions. We do that in QA since we're testing tools that produce and consume these definitions. We also do that quite often when we work with a new version of the specification and the tool is not up to spec yet. Now the question becomes: are shortcuts helpful or not. The shortuct saves you writing another XML element, so if I did end up writing a lot of these definitions (a lot >= 10) then it would be helpful. I expect that a test suite with say a hundred process definitions may contain in order of five definitions that actually use this shortcut. The downside: there's another semantic added to the language. So first of all the author and reviewer had to be aware of it, and so we've saved on XML elements but stacked up more requirements for those poor souls having to code BPEL definitions by hand. And second I know need two use cases: one with a sequence and one withtout (since nothing precludes using a <sequence> there, or a sequence of <sequence>), so now I have to produce even more test cases and have more lines of code. So for my particular use case I would not consider this shortcut to be of help but rather complicate matters. arkin Yaron Y. Goland wrote: >I remember in the late 1980s when everyone argued that source code was dead >and all programs would be written using UIs. > >I remember the early 1990s when everyone argued that no one would ever >directly author HTML. > >I also remember the late 1990s when everyone (myself included =( )argued >that it didn't matter if XML was human editable since everyone would use >tools. > >It's funny how often everyone is wrong. > > Just a thought, > Yaron > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: wsbpel-unsubscribe@lists.oasis-open.org >For additional commands, e-mail: wsbpel-help@lists.oasis-open.org > >
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