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Semantic Annotations for WSDL WG teleconference

30 Jan 2007

Agenda

See also: IRC log

Attendees

Present
AS, BNS, CB, CP, HL, JK, JF, JM, LH, RA
Regrets
CV, EP, JBD, MK, PM, SD, TV
Chair
JacekK
Scribe
carlos

Contents


No modifications to the agenda

approval of minutes

<JacekK> last minutes: http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/sawsdl/minutes/20070123

Last Minutes approved

Action items review

<scribe> ACTION: Eric to upgrade the SPDL page for SAWSDL readers and then work things out with the Usage Guide [PENDING] [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/sawsdl/minutes/20070130#action01]

<scribe> ACTION: JacekK to move the test suite to the W3C site [PENDING] [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/sawsdl/minutes/20070130#action02]

<scribe> ACTION: JohnM to provide an example for annotating operation inputs and/or outputs [DONE] [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/sawsdl/minutes/20070130#action03]

<scribe> ACTION: JacekK to reply to Mary about the limitation for only global element declaration and type definition for schema mappings [PENDING] [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/sawsdl/minutes/20070130#action04]

administrivia

Jack: CR published last friday
... start thinking about recommendation pres release
... both documents have been published
... any discussions about the recommendation pres release to be done through the member-only mailing list
... usage guide remains as a working draft for there are no normative specs
... it will end up being a group note

<JacekK> CR issues list open: http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/sawsdl/issues/CR-20070126.html

Agenda Item 6: CR issue 3: annotating operation inputs and outputs

Proposal by ajith: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ws-semann/2007Jan/0021

Ajith: in the scope of operations we could add annotations at the input/output level

Jack: what else would this annotations provide us?
... how would implementations use these annotations?

John: allowing pre and post conditions could provide us the same functionality

<Zakim> laurenth, you wanted to say that an automatic system can decide to drop reques acknowledgements but not order ones

Laurent: in automated composition knowing the types of replies would be very useful

Jack: pre and post conditions would help us here
... inputs and outputs can be correlated easily
... then you can identify the operation

<Zakim> laurenth, you wanted to say that model pre post conditions do not address the same problem

laurenth: at the semantic level, coming back to the WSDL to retrieve the semantics does not seem reasonable

Jack: the operation has this information

John: we could perhaps keep this placeholder for pre and post conditions

Jack: don't think this would do it, e.g. there could be operations with no output
... there are two related issues: CR issue 3 and Issue 33

Rama: we should add a section on annotating inputs and outputs

Joel: may not be able to add as it's borderline wrt charter

Jack: not really convinced about the need for annotating inputs/outputs

<Zakim> laurenth, you wanted to say : ok for adding a sentence in the spec to say that inputs and outputs is possible

laurenth: add a sentence about the possibility to add these annotations without specifying the motivation

Jack: we need a motivation

<Zakim> JacekK, you wanted to talk about the tech problem with input/output for prec/eff

JacekK: using input and outputs annotations for pre and post conditions would probably be inapropriate
... the issue falls down to an ontological modelling issue

ajith: shall we enforce any specific interpretation?

laurenth: still think it would be useful, we can't ignore that operations have inputs and outputs

Jack: modelReference can be used there, do we need a specific mention to inputs and outputs?

ajith: no addition to the spec seems to be necessary

RESOLUTION: issue CR3 resolved with no modification to the spec

Agenda Item 7. CR issue 4: Abstract and intro WSDL20-only?

jack: not refer in the abstract to WSDL 2.0
... make clear the spec is not just for wsdl 2.0

RESOLUTION: issue CR 4 resolved as suggested

Agenda Item 8: issue 33: Examples for associating Preconditions and Effects with Web Services

Rama: all the things discussed have been implemented
... effects to be added yet

JacekK: we will discuss this on the next call, please send email when updates are done

Summary of Action Items

[PENDING] ACTION: Eric to upgrade the SPDL page for SAWSDL readers and then work things out with the Usage Guide [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/sawsdl/minutes/20070130#action01]
[PENDING] ACTION: JacekK to move the test suite to the W3C site [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/sawsdl/minutes/20070130#action02]
[PENDING] ACTION: JacekK to reply to Mary about the limitation for only global element declaration and type definition for schema mappings [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/sawsdl/minutes/20070130#action04]
 
[DONE] ACTION: JohnM to provide an example for annotating operation inputs and/or outputs [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/sawsdl/minutes/20070130#action03]