Re: Marty, what do you see the variables being that ms will use...

[Martin W Sachs/Watson/IBM <mwsachs@us.ibm.com>]

Forwarding the appended to the list.

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---------------------- Forwarded by Martin W Sachs/Watson/IBM on 08/31/2000
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"Gordon van Huizen" <gvanhuiz@progress.com> on 08/31/2000 10:42:37 AM

Please respond to gvh@progress.com

To:   Martin W Sachs/Watson/IBM@IBMUS
cc:
Subject:  Re: Marty, what do you see the variables being that ms will
      use...



Marty,


Martin W Sachs/Watson/IBM wrote:

> In my mind, what we mean when we have used the term "application
services"
> is a set of functions that is logically part of the application layer but
> for which there are great benefits in performing these services in the
> run-time middleware.  To recap, the IBM Research prototype run-time (BPF)
> includes these services among others:
>
>    Sequencing Rules
>    Business document generation and parsing
>    Security
>    Correlation of conversations
>    Logging
>    Recovery

The above is a wonderfully crisp statement that adds a lot of clarity
for implementors. Will something like this be captured in some ebXML
spec?

-gvh-
(See attached file: gvh.vcf)

gvh.vcf