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Inconsistency between summary and detailed LinkKind Tables.

  • Key: TSKSESF2-7
  • Legacy Issue Number: 3711
  • Status: open  
  • Summary:

    The LinkKind summary tables on pages 16-17 replicate the detailed tables included under each AbstractResource derived type, however, there are minor inconsistencies in that not all LinkKinds are presented in the summary.

  • Reported: TSKSES 1.0b2 — Mon, 19 Jun 2000 04:00 GMT
  • Updated: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 11:15 GMT

Definition of Link as a valuetype (section 2.5.3, p 2-6)remains outstanding

  • Key: TSKSESF2-3
  • Legacy Issue Number: 3734
  • Status: open  
  • Summary:

    Section 2.5.3 "Technical Note" of formal/00-05-03 contains the following statement: "In the absence of a value based mechanism to express the kind of links that can exist between resources, the following hierarchy shall be assumed in evaluation of the correspondence of a link kind during the execution of the expand operation on AbstractResource. Non shaded blocks indicate abstract link kind values; whereas, shaded blocks indicate concrete link kinds". In order to properly declare inheritance structure of Links it recommended that a Link valuetype be defined as a replacement to the existing Link struct.

  • Reported: TSKSES 1.0b2 — Thu, 29 Jun 2000 04:00 GMT
  • Updated: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 11:15 GMT

Access to resource creation and modification dates

  • Key: TSKSESF2-6
  • Legacy Issue Number: 3169
  • Status: open  
  • Summary:

    The definition of BaseBusinessObject declares itself as an event publisher
    for objects typically exposed within client applications presenting a
    desktops and associated workspaces. If a client is maintaining a cache, the
    client, following disconnection from and reconnection to an event channel
    cannot establish if its internal cache is consistent with a source. As such
    a client is obliged to rebuild a cache following any disconnection from the
    event supplier creating an unacceptable performance degradation. Operations
    are require to expose creation and modification timestamps related to the
    event producer enabling client verification of creation and last
    modification dates.

  • Reported: TSKSES 1.0b1 — Tue, 28 Dec 1999 05:00 GMT
  • Updated: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 11:15 GMT

Incorrect event name in Task Structured Event Table.

  • Key: TSKSESF2-2
  • Legacy Issue Number: 3709
  • Status: open  
  • Summary:

    Task Structured Event Table on page 33 contains a reference to an event named "process_state" which is declares as an event exposing the state of Task. This event should be renamed to "task_state" as process and task state are independent according to the definition on page 31.

  • Reported: TSKSES 1.0b2 — Mon, 19 Jun 2000 04:00 GMT
  • Updated: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 11:15 GMT

Insufficency of Processor to Task semantics.

  • Key: TSKSESF2-8
  • Legacy Issue Number: 3712
  • Status: open  
  • Summary:

    The specification of Task under section 2.2.1 identifies and distinguishes between Independent and Dependent Tasks and distinguishes between the behaviour expected from data centric resources as distinct from process centric resources. Furthermore the specification implies that the state of a Task is a function of the state of the processor in combination with the state of used resources (data state). Under the specification the processor argument to a Task is defined as an AbastractResource, however, an AbstractResource does not provide semantics supporting notions of process oriented state or notions dealing with dependence or independence relative to an associated task (other then task to processor relationships). For interoperability between different domains an abstract processor interface is required which exposes as a minimum (a) a distinction between processors that control Task state as distinct from processors that are independent of Task state, (b) semantics enabling propagation of processor state to a associated Task, (c) interfaces enabling to interoperable location, instantiation and activation of a processes, and (d) semantics supporting the association of the role of consumed and produced resource relative to a processor (e.g. ability to distinguish two consumed workspace supplied as consumed resources to a "copy" processor where one resource is the workspace to be copied and the second workspace is the destination workspace).

  • Reported: TSKSES 1.0b2 — Mon, 19 Jun 2000 04:00 GMT
  • Updated: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 11:15 GMT

Management of event consumer association

  • Key: TSKSESF2-9
  • Legacy Issue Number: 3168
  • Status: open  
  • Summary:

    The specification of BaseBusinessObject includes inheritance of the
    CosNotifyComm::StructuredPushConsumer and StructuredPushSupplier interfaces.
    The semantics of StructuredPushSupplier implies association to a single
    StructuredProxyPushConsumer, however, the BaseBusinessObject interface is
    intended to support multiple concurrent consumers from potentially different
    business domains without mandating nor excluding the use of Notification
    channels as an implementation mechanisms. To enable the documented
    behaviour an explicit factory operation is required through which a
    StructuredPushSupplier reference can be exposed for a given consumer.

  • Reported: TSKSES 1.0b1 — Tue, 28 Dec 1999 05:00 GMT
  • Updated: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 11:15 GMT

Ambiguity of the containment relationship

  • Key: TSKSESF2-1
  • Legacy Issue Number: 3171
  • Status: open  
  • Summary:

    The Task and Session Specification defines a "contains" relationship between
    a Workspace and AbstractResources contained by the workspace. An
    AbstractResources may be contained within many Workspaces and Workspaces are
    themselves AbstractResources. However, the semantics of "contains" with
    respect to strong or weak aggregation are ambiguous. Achievement of
    consistent behaviour of lifecycle operations (remove, copy and move) across
    implementations requires explicit distinction between strong containment as
    opposed to weak containment. Strong containment is required in order to
    associate a resource with 0 to 1 principal workspace. Under strong
    containment, the removal of a containing workspace implies the removal of
    strongly contained resources. Under weak containment the removal of a
    containing workspace implies the removal of "contained_by" relationships
    held by contained resources towards the workspace. Under strong containment,
    it should be illegal for a resource to strongly contain a resource it is
    already strongly contained by.

  • Reported: TSKSES 1.0b1 — Tue, 28 Dec 1999 05:00 GMT
  • Updated: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 11:15 GMT

AbstractResource association count

  • Key: TSKSESF2-5
  • Legacy Issue Number: 3170
  • Status: open  
  • Summary:

    The AbstractResource interface contains an operation called "expand" which
    enables client applications to access relationships between resources.
    Invocation of expand returns a sequence of iterator instances representing
    the extent of a set of relationships, however, the iterator interface does
    not expose the size of the extent. This restricts the ability of interactive
    client applications dealing with navigation and graphic presentation of
    relationship extents.

  • Reported: TSKSES 1.0b1 — Tue, 28 Dec 1999 05:00 GMT
  • Updated: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 11:15 GMT

Missing LinkKind declaration in Task LinkKind Table.

  • Key: TSKSESF2-4
  • Legacy Issue Number: 3710
  • Status: open  
  • Summary:

    The LinkKind table for Task on page 32 does not define the abstract link "uses".

  • Reported: TSKSES 1.0b2 — Mon, 19 Jun 2000 04:00 GMT
  • Updated: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 11:15 GMT