While partners have no syntactic or semantic value in either abstract or
executable BPEL (nor have they ever), they still retain semantic meaning
at the modeling level. I don't actually recall a discussion about
removing them, but I'm somewhat ambivalent about doing so, and wonder
what others think on the issue.
Danny
Yaron Y. Goland wrote:
> I had previously moved that we remove partners (not partnerLinks) from
> the BPEL specification. I had been asked to table that proposal until
> we had a better understanding of what role partners might play in
> abstract processes. At the F2F the general consensus was that we now
> have a good enough understanding of what abstract processes are likely
> to look like in BPEL that we can safely conclude that partners will
> not play a significant role. Therefore I was asked to re-raise my
> original proposal.
>
> I therefore move that we remove partners from the BPEL specification.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Yaron
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