Re: [ebxml-dev] ebXML specifications interdendancies

[Duane Nickull <duane@xmlglobal.com>]

Mike Rawlins wrote:
> Thanks, but I still don't think I have an answer.  I know perfectly well what "context"
> is.  From your previous messages in this thread, I thought you were referring to the
> "context message".  Specifically, about it I was asking:
> 
> 1)  How do you expect the context message to be used?
> 
> 2)  Why is the context message "depended on by several other systems in ebXML"?  (or at
> least that's what I thought that you were asserting.  Forgive me if I misread you.)
>>>>>>>>>>>
Okay - here it is in non technical language:

Core Components are too abstract to be readily usable.  For Core
Components to be used on a global basis,  we need the context
mechanism.  Otherwise,  ebXML users will likely convert their existing
business messages into their own core components.  This will lead to a
proliferation of core components, hence interoperability will suffer.

Therefore,  I assert that every scenario within ebXML that is concerned
with Business Information is dependant on the COntext Mechanism.  If you
look at a Runtime Stack or a Design sequence, the dependencies are
obvious. 

IF you start to build software, and use proper object oriented
techniques,  you will quickly discover that all the core components
engines, the transformation components, assembly document engines and
design tools are ALL dependent on the context rules message either
directly or indirectly.


Duane