Minutes for 1/31/2007 from Mark Ford

Minutes approved from 1/24/07 meeting

Approval of latest committee draft

- Frank Ryan motioned to approve

- Charlton seconded

- no discussion, no objections

- motion passed

Moved on to the Committee specification and submission for approval as OASIS Standard.  These ballots require a special majority vote administered by the OASIS TC Administrator.  Verified that we had 20 of a total of 23 voting members present and that Mary McRae, OASIS TC Administrator,  was present and ready to oversee the ballots.

Approval of final committee specification

- Abbey motions to approve

- Monica seconded

- no discussion, no objections

- motion passed

Approval to submit specification to Oasis

- Abbey motions to approve

- Charlton seconded

- discussion

- Monica wanted to confirm that motion applies to both spec and schema

- Diane confirmed that it applies to both

- no objections

- motion passed

Discussion of Oasis webinar

- Abstract of technical webinar:

[begin IRC text]

Business Processes not only play a key role in Business-to-Business (B2B) and Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) scenarios by exposing the appropriate invocation and interaction patterns but they are the fundamental basis for building heterogeneous and distributed applications (workflow-based applications).

Web Services Business Process Execution Language (WS-BPEL) provides the language to specify business processes that are composed of Web services as well as exposed as Web services. Business Processes specified via WS-BPEL are portable; they can be carried out by every WS-BPEL compliant execution environment.

This presentation gives an technical introduction to the WS-BPEL 2.0 language for developers and architects interested in gaining an understanding of the concepts on which it is based and how it can be used to compose Web services.  Specific topics include

- How BPEL fits with web services standards

- Differences between executable and abstract processes

- Overview of language constructs used to create executable BPEL processes

- Advanced features such as:

--- Partner links

--- Event Handlers

--- Fault Handlers

-- Extensibility

- Changes from BPEL4WS 1.1

- Status of the specification

[end IRC text]

- further discussion on the text of the abstract, comparing it to the non-technical webinar abstract.  Decision made to use the same introductory paragraph for the non-technical webinar abstract.  Diane will send email to the TC to keep them informed of progress. 

Technical webinar to be done by Charlton, Dieter, and Frank Ryan

Non-technical webinar to be done by John, Chris, Frank Leymann

Questions on process

- Ivana wanted to confirm that any work done in maintenance mode would not involve any changes outside the scope of the BPEL 2.0 spec. This was confirmed by Diane and others.

Agenda for next meeting

- no new business other than discussing outline for the webinars

- next meeting is in two weeks

Preparation of Oasis submission documents will be started 

- preparation of RDDL files

- validation of schema files

Additional business

- question from Danny regarding bugs. answer: They will have to wait until after April 15 which is when we'll consider any maintenance issues if the IPR transition request passes. 

Frank motions to adjourn

Charlton seconds