Re: Ode / BPEL Donation of BPEL 2.0 Engine

2006-02-24 Thread robert burrell donkin
On 2/18/06, Davanum Srinivas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why are you being so negative? Let's try to make it work. If it does not then we decide what do next as a PPMC. i'm not sure that james is being negative: just excitable :) there are different paths to unification. it's not always best to

Re: Ode / BPEL Donation of BPEL 2.0 Engine

2006-02-24 Thread Paul Brown
Hi, Robert -- there are different paths to unification. it's not always best to sit down and try to come up with single grand unification strategy first. equally, it's often not best to ignore the question entirely. it is often hard to hit on the best design right away and then contrasting

Re: Ode / BPEL Donation of BPEL 2.0 Engine

2006-02-20 Thread Hiram Chirino
On Feb 18, 2006, at 2:23 PM, Davanum Srinivas wrote: Why are you being so negative? Let's try to make it work. If it does not then we decide what do next as a PPMC. I did not know that technical decisions were the responsibilities of the PMC/PPMC. Could you explain further? Being

Re: Ode / BPEL Donation of BPEL 2.0 Engine

2006-02-20 Thread Davanum Srinivas
Technical decisions do not belong to the PMC/PPMC. Nor do they belong in [EMAIL PROTECTED] Let's get the ball rolling and attack these on [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 2/20/06, Hiram Chirino [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 18, 2006, at 2:23 PM, Davanum Srinivas wrote: Why are you being so negative?

Re: Ode / BPEL Donation of BPEL 2.0 Engine

2006-02-20 Thread David Crossley
Hiram Chirino wrote: Davanum Srinivas wrote: Why are you being so negative? Let's try to make it work. If it does not then we decide what do next as a PPMC. I did not know that technical decisions were the responsibilities of the PMC/PPMC. Could you explain further? See

Re: Ode / BPEL Donation of BPEL 2.0 Engine

2006-02-18 Thread James Strachan
On 17 Feb 2006, at 23:15, Ismael Ghalimi wrote: Team, Before we decide to put both codebases under the same project or under separate projects, I would like to ask a couple of clarifying questions. First, what is the goal of the Ode project? Is it to develop an implementation of the BPEL

Re: Ode / BPEL Donation of BPEL 2.0 Engine

2006-02-18 Thread James Strachan
On 18 Feb 2006, at 04:26, Noel J. Bergman wrote: Replied to on [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please move discussion to that list. The one comment to which I'll reply in general, as it effects multiple projects, is: The only issue is users of Sybase or PXE will want milestone builds so they can test

Re: Ode / BPEL Donation of BPEL 2.0 Engine

2006-02-18 Thread Matthieu Riou
First, what is the goal of the Ode project? My preference would be on building, striclty speaking, a BPEL engine. The whole BPM space is cluttered with different paradigms (classic workflow, orchestration, document-style workflow...) and specs. BPEL seems to be getting accepted as THE standard

Re: Ode / BPEL Donation of BPEL 2.0 Engine

2006-02-18 Thread Jacek Laskowski
2006/2/18, James Strachan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: - If we want to release something now, is it ok to have two separate codebases under the same project? Yes; lots of other projects do this already. (Agila, Axis, Geronimo etc) Hi James, I don't understand your example of Geronimo as a project

Re: Ode / BPEL Donation of BPEL 2.0 Engine

2006-02-18 Thread Davanum Srinivas
Why are you being so negative? Let's try to make it work. If it does not then we decide what do next as a PPMC. Being negative for one second...i can safely say that in the worst case scenario - Sybase and PXE folks do have other choices (codehaus,sf etc...) as they own the copyright to the code

Re: Ode / BPEL Donation of BPEL 2.0 Engine

2006-02-17 Thread James Strachan
On 16 Feb 2006, at 22:40, Sanjiva Weerawarana wrote: +1 for importing the codebase into 2 subdirectories to start with. However, if we want to merge the two into one, then let's make it a goal that we don't release anything until we've figured out how to cut-n- chop mix-n-match to make

Re: Ode / BPEL Donation of BPEL 2.0 Engine

2006-02-17 Thread Sanjiva Weerawarana
On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 08:52 +, James Strachan wrote: Integrating the two code bases together is gonna be a slow, iterative s/two/three/. process; we're talking complex code here. It could be that to start with things are completely separate, after 6 months they are 10% common, 2

Re: Ode / BPEL Donation of BPEL 2.0 Engine

2006-02-17 Thread Rob Davies
Would it not be more expedient to have Ode as an umbrella project - but the goal would to be to try and find commonality between all the projects and see it's possible to merge? It's a complex problem - no doubt (not because the individual code bases are complex - but they are completely

Re: Ode / BPEL Donation of BPEL 2.0 Engine

2006-02-17 Thread Sanjiva Weerawarana
My concern is that the proposed path is one where there's little convergence in the near term and where the single incubating project releases multiple files on their own schedules. That's fine, but that's not one project. What's the point of being one project if there's no viable plan to make

Re: Ode / BPEL Donation of BPEL 2.0 Engine

2006-02-17 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr
Sanjiva Weerawarana wrote: I totally agree these codebases are large and complicated (remember I was the one who was surprised how fast people found that the Sybase codebase was nice and cool). If you really think the best solution is not to force them to merge then let's not go down the

Re: Ode / BPEL Donation of BPEL 2.0 Engine

2006-02-17 Thread Bill Flood
Even when we were thinking about the ServiceMix project, I was not thinking that using Sybase Ode with ServiceMix implied a tight binding; there was agreement to avoid tight couplings and it would go against the grain of JBI anyway. ServiceMix usage was just an example of a container using Ode.

Re: Ode / BPEL Donation of BPEL 2.0 Engine

2006-02-17 Thread James Strachan
On 17 Feb 2006, at 12:58, Sanjiva Weerawarana wrote: My concern is that the proposed path I wasn't proposing a specific path, just highlighting issues we'll have if we assume the only one engine approach. is one where there's little convergence in the near term FWIW convergence will

Re: Ode / BPEL Donation of BPEL 2.0 Engine

2006-02-17 Thread James Strachan
How about this for an idea of how we can get started (particularly if the thought of another Jakarta Commons-like project scared some people off :)... Agila already has 2 codebases inside it today; the original BPM and Twister BPEL. So how about we start the Ode podling with the same

Re: Ode / BPEL Donation of BPEL 2.0 Engine

2006-02-17 Thread James Strachan
Hi Paul On 17 Feb 2006, at 18:44, Paul Brown wrote: Then inside the Ode podling we figure out over time what BPEL stuff we can merge etc. Over time the Twister code could merge/move into Ode. BPM code from Ode could move into Agila. Or we can merge everything into Ode, or Agila can become the

Re: Ode / BPEL Donation of BPEL 2.0 Engine

2006-02-17 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Friday 17 February 2006 23:56, James Strachan wrote: So I'm wondering if it might make sense to start the incubation   process as an umbrella project; Umbrella doesn't sound right at all to a layman like me. Use a single trunk, single build root, perhaps many modules, and do the IBM styled

RE: Ode / BPEL Donation of BPEL 2.0 Engine

2006-02-17 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Replied to on [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please move discussion to that list. The one comment to which I'll reply in general, as it effects multiple projects, is: The only issue is users of Sybase or PXE will want milestone builds so they can test against the incubating code to give us feedback that

RE: Ode / BPEL Donation of BPEL 2.0 Engine

2006-02-17 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Alex Boisvert wrote: I would revise my proposition to: Apache Ode = Merge of PXE, Sybase BPE and Agila BPEL Apache Agila = Merge of Agila workflow and Intalio BPEL4People What do people think about this grouping? Please feel free to pursue this discussion on [EMAIL PROTECTED] If the

Re: Ode / BPEL Donation of BPEL 2.0 Engine

2006-02-16 Thread James Strachan
Great stuff Ismael! James On 15 Feb 2006, at 22:07, Ismael Ghalimi wrote: Good afternoon, My name is Ismael Ghalimi, and I am the CEO of Intalio. Our company would be interested in participating to the Ode project through a donation of the PXE BPEL 2.0 engine and the dedication of

Re: Ode / BPEL Donation of BPEL 2.0 Engine

2006-02-16 Thread Ismael Ghalimi
Thanks! On 2/16/06, James Strachan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Great stuff Ismael! James On 15 Feb 2006, at 22:07, Ismael Ghalimi wrote: Good afternoon, My name is Ismael Ghalimi, and I am the CEO of Intalio. Our company would be interested in participating to the Ode project

Re: Ode / BPEL Donation of BPEL 2.0 Engine

2006-02-16 Thread Ismael Ghalimi
Alan, Thanks for doing this. It looks good. One comment: in the Homogeneous developers section, we might want to make mention of Intalio alongside Sybase in order to re-enforce the group's heterogeneity. Best regards -Ismael On 2/15/06, Alan D. Cabrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Done. Feel

RE: Ode / BPEL Donation of BPEL 2.0 Engine

2006-02-16 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Bill and Ismael, Do be clear, as I understand it from comments such as: Ismael: Intalio [working] alongside Sybase Bill Flood: My preference is simply that we apply our combined talent to work towards something greater than the sum of the parts. and from a

Re: Ode / BPEL Donation of BPEL 2.0 Engine

2006-02-16 Thread Ismael Ghalimi
Noel, We are in favor of a single project, for it will lead to the best implementation we can get with the resources that are being dedicated to the project. The meaning of the Ode (ODE?) acronym seems a little bit confusing and might have to be clarified. The name itself is nice though. Our

Re: Ode / BPEL Donation of BPEL 2.0 Engine

2006-02-16 Thread Davanum Srinivas
If i may+1 to ode. let's get this rolling with ode-dev@ thanks, -- dims On 2/16/06, Noel J. Bergman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill and Ismael, Do be clear, as I understand it from comments such as: Ismael: Intalio [working] alongside Sybase Bill Flood: My preference is simply that

Re: Ode / BPEL Donation of BPEL 2.0 Engine

2006-02-16 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr
Could I presume to suggest something as obvious as Apache BPEL or similar? makes it easier for people to grok what we're doing. I know it's not terribly imaginative, but might make it easy for people to recognize it as a BPEL project. (Like ActiveBPEL) geir Noel J. Bergman wrote: Bill

Re: Ode / BPEL Donation of BPEL 2.0 Engine

2006-02-16 Thread James Strachan
On 16 Feb 2006, at 16:41, Ismael Ghalimi wrote: [snip] Our primary concern moving forward will be whether we start from one codebase, or try to merge two existing codebases. From a purely practical perspective, its probably easiest to start off with the 2 codebases imported (when the IP

Re: Ode / BPEL Donation of BPEL 2.0 Engine

2006-02-16 Thread Alex Boisvert
I agree, we'll need to set both codebases in the repository so we can start the merge process. In parallel, we also need to determine what we want from the resulting merge so we can work together in building the new engine. alex James Strachan wrote: On 16 Feb 2006, at 16:41, Ismael Ghalimi

Re: Ode / BPEL Donation of BPEL 2.0 Engine

2006-02-16 Thread Alex Boisvert
This raises an interesting point. Is the goal of the project to produce a BPEL engine? If so, then we could have separation between BPEL (processes) and workflow (human tasks). I think this would help modularity and clarify project focus. In order words, workflow-related pieces could go

Re: Ode / BPEL Donation of BPEL 2.0 Engine

2006-02-16 Thread Bill Flood
It would seem better to think of the (human) workflow in a different scope as we disect the problem. There are all kinds of issues in Workflow with forms, etc. that have little to do with the actual orchestration or even BPEL. Brings to mind MVC. It might make sense to divide the problem space

Re: Ode / BPEL Donation of BPEL 2.0 Engine

2006-02-16 Thread Sanjiva Weerawarana
+1 for importing the codebase into 2 subdirectories to start with. However, if we want to merge the two into one, then let's make it a goal that we don't release anything until we've figured out how to cut-n-chop mix-n-match to make that real. Its clearly not going to be easy and will take some

Re: Ode / BPEL Donation of BPEL 2.0 Engine

2006-02-16 Thread Roy T. Fielding
On Feb 16, 2006, at 10:08 AM, Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: Could I presume to suggest something as obvious as Apache BPEL or similar? makes it easier for people to grok what we're doing. I know it's not terribly imaginative, but might make it easy for people to recognize it as a BPEL

Re: Ode / BPEL Donation of BPEL 2.0 Engine

2006-02-16 Thread Davanum Srinivas
Though Apache SOAP was a bit before my time...i agree :) On 2/16/06, Roy T. Fielding [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 16, 2006, at 10:08 AM, Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: Could I presume to suggest something as obvious as Apache BPEL or similar? makes it easier for people to grok what we're

Re: Ode / BPEL Donation of BPEL 2.0 Engine

2006-02-16 Thread Alex Boisvert
Alright, then I would revise my proposition to: Apache Ode = Merge of PXE, Sybase BPE and Agila BPEL Apache Agila = Merge of Agila workflow and Intalio BPEL4People What do people think about this grouping? alex Roy T. Fielding wrote: On Feb 16, 2006, at 10:08 AM, Geir Magnusson Jr wrote:

Re: Ode / BPEL Donation of BPEL 2.0 Engine

2006-02-15 Thread Bill Flood
It's all good news for the community at large! On 2/15/06, Ismael Ghalimi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good afternoon, My name is Ismael Ghalimi, and I am the CEO of Intalio. Our company would be interested in participating to the Ode project through a donation of the PXE BPEL 2.0 engine and

Re: Ode / BPEL Donation of BPEL 2.0 Engine

2006-02-15 Thread Alan D. Cabrera
Done. Feel free to amend. Regards, Alan Davanum Srinivas wrote, On 2/15/2006 2:15 PM: Welcome aboard Alan, James, Could you please update the wiki proposal? thanks, dims On 2/15/06, Ismael Ghalimi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good afternoon, My name is Ismael Ghalimi, and I am the CEO