Re: [CASHeW-s-Editor] Symbols to use for components in editor...

[R Bhagdev]

Hi,

Yes, activity diagrams are most appropriate.

Quoting Andrew John Hughes <address@hidden>:

> On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 15:31, Ravish Bhagdev wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > We need to decide on symbols to use for our editor for composing processes.
>  I had suggested that we use UML diagrams.  But I guess we need some more. 
> We have following: 
> > 
> > Process (rect)
> > Flow (arrows)
> > Choice (diamond)
> > For parallel execution, we can use Split (as one line splitting into
> multiple going into different processes)
> > 
> > Any suggestion for start and end nodes?
> > 
> 
> Have you been looking at a specific type of UML diagram or just choosing
> arbitrary UML-like notation?  At a glance, activity diagrams seem the
> most appropriate to me.  An activity is defined as 'an ongoing nonatomic
> execution', and the notation includes initial and final states,
> processes, sequential branching and concurrent forking.
> 
> > What other will be required, we needed a few specialized ones, can u please
> tell me about that?
> > 
> Have a look at the OWL-s presentation on the website or the
> specification -- this defines the control structures that can be used. 
> Of the top of my head,
> 
> * Sequential
> * Any-Order
> * If-Then-Else
> * The two repeat constructs
> * Split
> * Split/Join
> * Choice
> 
> > I guess we can use anything for the screenshot in proposal as we can change
> later...??
> > 
> The screenshot is just a mock-up of how you think the editor will
> eventually look.  Final results will obviously differ.
> 
> > Andrew, if you can please suggest something and an example for the
> proposal....
> > 
> I'd recommend you show at least:
> 
> * Building up a process (the OWL-s part)
> * The scope for adding Haskell (Atheesh should really do this bit)
> 
> and anything more you can think of that's relevant.
> 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > Ravish Bhagdev.
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> Cheers,
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