Service Modeling Language (SML) educational section
Hi all, In July 2006, Microsoft, IBM, HP, Intel and several other companies have published "service modeling language (SML)." This is a XML based language specification and expected to be used to model complex IT services and systems, including their structure, constraints, policies, and best practices. SML is based on a profile on XML Schema and Schematron. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/dsi/serviceml.mspx This spec is still proprietary and authors are going to submit it to one of SDOs maybe early this year (Q1). Heather Kreger, one of authors, will provide one hour educational session. This session is *not* OGSA nor OGF session. They will explain but no feedback allowed unless we sign a contributer agreement form. Date: January 15, Monday time: 5-6pm ET, 4-5pm CT, 2-3pm PT, 7-8am JST, 10-11pm UK dial-in: 877-811-9717 pc: 440496 After this session, we will switch to our regular OGSA-WG dial-in and start to discuss without authors. Thanks, -- Hiro Kishimoto
Hiro Kishimoto wrote:
In July 2006, Microsoft, IBM, HP, Intel and several other companies have published "service modeling language (SML)." This is a XML based language specification and expected to be used to model complex IT services and systems, including their structure, constraints, policies, and best practices. SML is based on a profile on XML Schema and Schematron.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/dsi/serviceml.mspx
This spec is still proprietary and authors are going to submit it to one of SDOs maybe early this year (Q1).
Unfortunately, I will not be attending the telecon (it's a really terrible time for me!) so I'm going to have to do my comments here. The first point of note is that the name is very unfortunate, since it clashes with Standard ML. At this stage (i.e. prior to submission to a standards body) it is still reasonably easy to change the name, and explaining the change would be pretty easy. Changing to SModL or something like that would work, and not require major revisions to any documents. (This is just my opinion, but I admit to hating overloading of TLAs, since it causes trouble down the line, time and time again.) The other point of note is that there are no examples that describe how a service might actually be modelled. Given the stated purpose of the language, this seems a curious omission. It's also not clear to me whether stateful services would be modellable (e.g. so that if, in the examples from the SML spec, there was an "Enrol" operation, then it would be possible to precisely characterize the fact that success will only happen if the state of the student is changed) but that might well be a misunderstanding on my part. I was also going to ask about how to validate time-dependent properties of the service, but then I recalled that WS-ResourceLifetime makes the required information available and so reasoning there requires no new elements, assuming that the general "service reasoning" point raised above is appropriately tackled. Donal Fellows (not having had time to properly analyse the SML specs.)
Hi all, Slide presentation will be shown on screen sharing service. Screen share service will be provided. URL: http://ogsa.glance.net Session key: 0115 See more explanation: https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/wiki1584 Thanks, ---- Hiro Kishimoto Hiro Kishimoto wrote:
Hi all,
In July 2006, Microsoft, IBM, HP, Intel and several other companies have published "service modeling language (SML)." This is a XML based language specification and expected to be used to model complex IT services and systems, including their structure, constraints, policies, and best practices. SML is based on a profile on XML Schema and Schematron.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/dsi/serviceml.mspx
This spec is still proprietary and authors are going to submit it to one of SDOs maybe early this year (Q1).
Heather Kreger, one of authors, will provide one hour educational session. This session is *not* OGSA nor OGF session. They will explain but no feedback allowed unless we sign a contributer agreement form.
Date: January 15, Monday time: 5-6pm ET, 4-5pm CT, 2-3pm PT, 7-8am JST, 10-11pm UK dial-in: 877-811-9717 pc: 440496
After this session, we will switch to our regular OGSA-WG dial-in and start to discuss without authors.
Thanks,
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Hiro Kishimoto