Re: Where is that Party?

[Karsten Riemer <Karsten.Riemer@East.Sun.COM>]

Perhaps we could get Brian to help us make the metamodel available to us all
in the same web accessible fashion that he did for the AIAG example? That way
we could check directly against the metamodel if something is not in the spec.

thanks,
-karsten

>Scott et al.
>
>I am expecting that very soon I will be beset with numerous questions and
>issues regarding the metamodel and methodology. In order to assure that I
>respond to these (or have the appropriate person to respond). I am placing
>these questions into a word doc capturing the issue, response, originator
>and
>the doc release the issue was against. I will do my best to capture all
>issues.
>
>As a response to this question please affirm the following:
>
>The concept "Party does exist in the metamodel, currently as an abstract
>superclass of TradingPartner and BusinessPartner. I have not included in the
>spec as of yet in that I am dealing with an issue of whether the concept of
>stakeholder found in the N090 is equivalent, a specialization or a unique
>class. The next release of the doc will show this modeling element.
>
>Jim Clark
>
>
>
>Scott Hinkelman/Austin/IBM wrote:
>
>> Jim/Bob/Bpers,
>> I'm always looking for a Party.
>>
>> I'm starting with some basics. There is increased concensous in TP/MS that
>> a Party:
>> "A Party is a company, organization or individual or other entity
>> that can generate, receive or relay Documents."
>>
>> The document on page 13 does indicate a PartnerType, but could the
>Customer
>> and Supplier (business actor stereotype) in the example equate to a Party
>> stereotype?
>> The next item would be how express a PartyProfile correctly here.
>>
>> Scott Hinkelman, Senior Software Engineer
>> XML Industry Enablement
>> IBM e-business Standards Strategy
>> 512-823-8097 (TL 793-8097) (Cell: 512-940-0519)
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