[alf-req] ALF Requirements Meeting Minutes 10/12/2005, 10/19/2005

["Kelly Shaw" <kshaw@xxxxxxxxxx>]

 

ALF Requirements Meeting Minutes

10/12/2005 and 10/19/2005 

 

Attendees 10/12/2005                Attendees 10/19/2005

 

Aldon                                        BuildForge

BuildForge                                Catalyst

Catalyst                                    Compuware

Compuware                               IBM-Rational

IBM-Rational                             Secure Software

Secure Software                        Segue

Segue                                       Serena Software

Serena Software

U of Toronto (Private Citizen)

 

Review Requirements Document

 

Discussion: In the past two meetings we concentrated on reviewing the ALF requirements document. I'll summarize the findings here. See the document for the resulting requirements definitions.

• Missing Requirement. Allow ALF designers to define custom event structures based on a base structure defined by ALF.
• AEB4. Event source/event structure can be tied to either 0..1 synchronous service flows or 0..n asynchronous service flows.
• AEB5. Make it explicit that the event service provided by ALF can be called within a service flow definition. This is a good thing since the POC has such a call.
• AEB8. Event filtering can be customized through the use of a SPI. For the POC we will not have any event filtering.
• AEB13. Rework completely to split up the deferred requirement for synchronous service flow calls from the high priority asynchronous service flow calls.
• AEB14. Rework to talk about how return values are handled in synchronous and asynchronous service flow calls.
• Logging. Define the minimal set of logged values. Specify logging levels and what a 'debug' logging level will provide.
• Security. Specify some alternatives to how security will be handled for strongly ALF compliant web services and weakly ALF conformant web services. Push it off on the service flow designer to decide how to enforce security for weakly ALF conformant services.

Next Meeting

The next requirements meeting will be from 10:00 - 11:00 Pacific on Wednesday, 26  October. Shaw will send the meeting announcement and agenda to alf-events and alf-req and will post the announcement to the newsgroup. Shaw will also request the webmaster to update the requirements document before the next meeting.

Kelly Shaw

Sr. Product Marketing Manager

Serena Software

719-457-8811

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