Welcome to the WSCM Technical Committee

1. Welcome to the WSCM Technical Committee First face to face meeting January 7-9, 2002 IBM Research Hawthorne, NY WSCM Technical Committee

2. This Meeting • Kick off the Technical Committee (OASIS process) • Agenda for the remainder of the meeting: • Day 1: Requirements and technology overview presentations • IBM, Epicentric, WebCollage, CrossWeave, HP, Kinzan, Bowstreet, Cyclone Commerce, Rex Brooks (HML), Fujitsu • Summarization of requirements • Day 2: Defining the WSCM roadmap • Related XML and web services standards • Strawman framework for WSCM and relationship to the web services stack, and positioning of talks against it • Breakout sessions into prospective subcommittees • Setting milestones based on breakout reports • Day 3: Plan for moving forward and communications • Relationship with other TCs and working groups • Conference and paper plans • WSCM meeting schedule and format WSCM Technical Committee

3. Charter of the WSCM Technical Committee: Goals • The aims of the WSCM TC shall be as follows: • Create an XML and web services centric component model for interactive web applications. The designs must achieve two main goals: enable businesses to distribute web applications through multiple revenue channels, and enable new services or applications to be created by leveraging existing applications across the Web. • To harmonize WSCM as far as practical with existing web application programming models (e.g. Portals, Macromedia Flash, etc.), with the work of the W3C (e.g.XForms, DOM, XML Events, XPath, XLink, XML Component API task force), emerging web services standards (e.g. SOAP, WSDL, WSFL), and with the work of other appropriate business information bodies. • Ensure that WSCM applications can be deployed on any tier on the network and remain target device and output markup neutral. • Ultimately, to promote WSCM to the status of an international standard for the conduct of XML and Web Services based web application development, deployment and management. WSCM Technical Committee

4. Charter of the WSCM Technical Committee: Deliverables • The primary deliverable of the WSCM TC is a coordinated set of XML vocabularies and Web Services interfaces that will allow businesses to: • Deliver web applications to end users through a diversity of deployment channels: directly to a browser or mobile device, indirectly through a portal, or by embedding into a 3rd party web application; and • Create web applications that can be easily modified, adapted, aggregated, coordinated, synchronized or integrated by simple declarative means to ultimately leverage a worldwide pallet of web application components. WSCM Technical Committee

5. Charter of the WSCM Technical Committee: Phases of work • As currently envisioned, the WSCM work will take place in five phases: • A first phase to gather requirements across web application deployment, development and management vendors. • A second phase to define a set of "base" web services interfaces that can be used to expose web application function and adaptation. • A third phase to define a "wiring mechanism" to declaratively specify web application semantics. • A fourth phase to define a set of web services interfaces that can be used to partition web applications into model, view and control (MVC). • A fifth phase to define a set of design patterns to guide WSCM developers in creating re-useable application components. In addition the TC will encourage implementations, test suites and interoperability guidelines. WSCM Technical Committee

6. TPA Service negotiation UDDI Publishing & discovery WSCM WSFL Web Applications Flow Descriptions ??? Transactions / Reliability / Routing WSDL Service Descriptions SOAP / XML Protocol Message / Protocol HTTP, HTTPR, SMTP, MQ Transport Internet, intranet Network WSCM Positioning in the Web Services standards stack Security / Privacy Quality of service Management WSCM Technical Committee

7. Existing and WSCM-specific elements of a user interface framework WSCM Data Service WSCM Presentation Service WSCM Base Service WSCM Container WSCM Event Controller Event wiring WSFL - Flow modeling WSFL - Global modeling WSDL - Operations Existing WS infrastructure WSCM WSCM Technical Committee

8. Existing and WSCM-specific elements of a user interface framework - as amended by TC User and device profiling WSCM Data Service WSCM Presentation Service WSCM Base Service WSCM Container WSCM Event Controller Event wiring WSFL - Flow modeling WSFL - Global modeling Stateful services Events WSDL - Operations Existing WS infrastructure Required WS infrastructure WSCM WSCM Technical Committee

9. Layering on top of evolving WS stack • Address more general issues of WS infrastructure (sessions, context, transactions, security) through OASIS/W3C liaison roles • Retain focus of this TC on interactive applications • TC name: Web Services for Interactive Applications WSCM Technical Committee

10. Coarse-grained interaction Providers Integrator Client Application Back End Services User Experience Services WSCM Technical Committee

11. Define a set of "base" web services interfaces that can be used to expose web application function “Coarse-grained” interaction User and device profiling WSCM Data Service WSCM Presentation Service WSCM Base Service WSCM Container WSCM Event Controller Event wiring Flow modeling Global modeling Stateful services Events WSDL - Operations Existing WS infrastructure Required WS infrastructure WSCM WSCM Technical Committee

12. Define a "wiring mechanism" to declaratively specify web application semantics. Interaction wiring User and device profiling WSCM Data Service WSCM Presentation Service WSCM Base Service WSCM Container WSCM Event Controller Event wiring WSFL - Flow modeling WSFL - Global modeling Stateful services Events WSDL - Operations Existing WS infrastructure Required WS infrastructure WSCM WSCM Technical Committee

13. Fine-grained interaction Providers Integrator Client WSXL Data WSXL Pres WSXL Control Application Back End Services User Experience Services WSCM Technical Committee

14. “Fine-grained” interaction Define a set of web services interfaces that can be used to partition web user interfaces into model, view and control (MVC) services User and device profiling WSCM Data Service WSCM Presentation Service WSCM Base Service WSCM Container WSCM Event Controller Event wiring WSFL - Flow modeling WSFL - Global modeling Stateful services Events WSDL - Operations Existing WS infrastructure Required WS infrastructure WSCM WSCM Technical Committee

15. Work phases • Base service definition - coarse grained • what are the types, messages, and operations of the service interface? • How is flow managed across pages? • How is state shared between provider and integrator? • How is the target device context indicated? • Wiring definitions • How are services wired together? - XML events, XLINK language, handlers for event transformations • MVC service definition - fine grained • What are the operations of the data and presentation service interfaces? • Service adaptation • Market requirements for platforms, migration • Discussion in group as a whole WSCM Technical Committee

16. Breakout group: Producer • Goals and purpose • What set of requirements fall onto the Producer? • What are any additional ones? • What uses cases illustrate these reqs? • What market segments exist for Producers (portlet, ASP, separate web app?) • What are the priorities among the reqs (1, 2, 3) • Work products • What are the relevant WSIA interfaces and XML languages to be defined? • Relationship with existing standards • Open questions • Can composition be enabled through existing or emerging service-composition languages such as • WSFL Global Modeling? Can flows be enabled through WSFL Flow Composition? • Milestones • Gather requirements across web application deployment, development and management vendors • Use cases • Stages in defining interfaces and languages • Define a set of design patterns to guide WSIA developers in creating re-useable application components WSCM Technical Committee

17. Breakout group: Consumer • Goals and purpose • What set of requirements fall onto the Consumer? • What are any additional ones? • What uses cases illustrate these reqs? • What market segments exist for Consumers (portals, ASP, separate web app?) • What are the priorities among the reqs (1, 2, 3) • Work products • What are the relevant WSIA interfaces and XML languages to be defined? • Relationship with existing standards • Open questions • Can composition be enabled through existing or emerging service-composition languages such as • WSFL Global Modeling? Can flows be enabled through WSFL Flow Composition? • Milestones • Gather requirements across web application deployment, development and management vendors • Use cases • Stages in defining interfaces and languages • Define a set of design patterns to guide WSIA developers in creating re-useable application components WSCM Technical Committee

18. Breakout group: Service Adaptation • Goals and purpose • Define an XML language for specifying how developers are allowed to adapt applications and the markup • they generate for the varying requirements of multiple channels. • What set of requirements fall onto the Service Adaptation? • What are any additional ones? • What uses cases illustrate these reqs? • What are the priorities among the reqs (1, 2, 3) • Work products • What are the relevant WSIA interfaces and XML languages to be defined? • Relationship with existing standards • Open questions • Milestones • Gather requirements across web application deployment, development and management vendors • Use cases • Stages in defining interfaces and languages • Define a set of design patterns to guide WSIA developers in creating re-useable application components WSCM Technical Committee

19. Open Issues and Focus Areas • Business considerations • Usage patterns and requirements • Core functionality and architecture of the UI framework • Base interfaces: base service, data inputs and outputs, page entry points, and collection/container • Flow composition • Aggregation (global composition) • Event interaction and composition • Surrounding issues • Security • Management model • Agreements • Availability, failure and recovery semantics • Adoption • Core implementation product support - which platforms? • Performance • Tooling • Development models • Standardization • Standardization process for core architecture • Convergence of parallel efforts • Vertical standards WSCM Technical Committee

20. Summary • Goals for remainder of this meeting • identify major stages of work, prospective subcommittees • for each stage, identify: plan for developing business and technical requirements, plan for identifying available technologies, refine milestones, list open issues • Follow up: • Process for on-going meetings • Date for next face to face meeting • Discussion of milestones from breakout sessions • Identify sub-topics for off-line work WSCM Technical Committee