[bpel-dev] partnerLinks

[Michal Chmielewski <michal.chmielewski@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Have been doing some work on partner links and the following has come up.

The code has a notion of reference and interface partners. I think this was a simplification that you guys originally did to make everything 1-way or interface like.

In BPEL, a partnerLinkType can have 1 or 2 roles defined and hence a partner link can have 1 or 2 roles set (myRole and partnerRole).

To enable this straight BPEL notation, partnerLinks would have to be created without roles initially, and then roles could be set based on the partner link type (which allows for 1 or 2 roles). To do that, that interface, reference partners concept would have to collapse.

And eventually, the WSDL editor will be extended to do the partnerLink editing.

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