Issue - 82 - description of abstract processes in spec

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Issue - 82 - description of abstract processes in spec
Status: open

Date added: 3 Nov 2003

Submitter: Ben Bloch

Date submitted: 01 November 2003

Document: BPEL 1.1 Specification

Description: Better describe abstract processes in spec, particularly
in terms of what they are, what they are not, and the relationshop
between abstract and executable processes.  This is mostly
wordsmithing the spec along the lines of the messages Steve Capell, 23 Oct 2003, Ben Bloch, 24 Oct 2003, Frank Leymann, 25 Oct 2003 
(identified in the list below as "possible text").

Links: 	(Note considerable discussion before formal raising of an issue)     
  Peter Furniss, 22 Oct 2003     
  Satish Thatte, 23 Oct 2003     
  possible text (Steve Capell, 23 Oct 2003)     
  Satish Thatte, 23 Oct 2003     
  Steve Capell, 23 Oct 2003     
  Satish Thatte, 23 Oct 2003     
  Harvey Reed, 23 Oct 2003     
  Tony Andrews, 23 Oct 2003     
  Harvey Reed, 23 Oct 2003     
  Tony Andrews, 23 Oct 2003     
  Ben Bloch, 23 Oct 2003     
  Tony Andrews, 23 Oct 2003     
  Jean-Jacques Dubray, 23 Oct 2003     
  Danny van der Rijn, 23 Oct 2003     
  Steve Capell, 23 Oct 2003     
  David RR Webber, 23 Oct 2003     
  Satish Thatte, 23 Oct 2003     
  Jean-Jacques Dubray, 23 Oct 2003     
  Steve Capell, 23 Oct 2003     
  Frank Leymann, 24 Oct 2003     
  possible text (Ben Bloch, 24 Oct 2003)     
  Derek Miers, 24 Oct 2003     
  Tony Andrews, 24 Oct 2003     
  possible text (Frank Leymann, 25 Oct 2003)

Changes: 3 Nov 2003 - new issue

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