RE: [alf-dev] RE: ALFSource Code Mangement Vocabulary

[Mark Phippard <markp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

alf-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 05/03/2006 05:57:07 PM:

> This is an interesting case because there are properties and values that
> tools should and will exchange but there are also dependencies, as when 
the
> SCM tool might detect conditions that should prevent a build from 
executing.
> A common case we see is where a trigger or other SCM process from a
> developer workspace "pre-builds" a change package and if the result does 
not
> meet build criteria, a promotion, update, what have you, should fail 
until
> the issue is resolved. There's probably quite a bit of messenging to 
take
> place between the SCM tool and the build environment in that instance 
and a
> lot of potential for vendor specific application logic on both sides. 

I am sure there will always be cases where point to point integrations 
still make sense, but this scenario you describe sounds tailor-made for 
ALF.  All I see is a bunch of different events and service flows.  This is 
the sort of thing where ALF will probably really make it easier and add 
value.

> The cases do run the gamut from a simple "share these properties and 
data"
> to "evaluate and start/stop this dependent event from occuring".  Both 
types
> of event transactions need to be supported, and I agree they're 
different
> from a "level of integration" point of view. It seems like the tricky 
part
> of vocabulary production is determining how deep the event management
> extends into this kind of integration space. The goal seems to be to
> insulate vocabularies from one another's domain expertise, but we do 
need to
> enable the interoperabilities that matter to the overall workbench. 

I am not sure how the ALF Events will relate to the vocabularies but I 
recall they describe a data payload that can be used somehow in the event 
"logic".  The vocabularies are more to describe the services that might be 
available to use to build service flows.

Mark

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