[jbosstools-issues] [JBoss JIRA] Updated: (JBIDE-7351) General issues with Variable Initialization, Assign, and Copy

[Robert (Bob) Brodt (JIRA)]

     [ https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-7351?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Robert (Bob) Brodt updated JBIDE-7351:
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    Fix Version/s: LATER
                       (was: 3.2.0.CR1)


Moved to LATER

> General issues with Variable Initialization, Assign, and Copy
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>                 Key: JBIDE-7351
>                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-7351
>             Project: Tools (JBoss Tools)
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: bpel
>    Affects Versions: 3.2.0.M2
>            Reporter: Jeff DeLong
>            Assignee: Robert (Bob) Brodt
>             Fix For: LATER
>
>   Original Estimate: 0 minutes
>  Remaining Estimate: 0 minutes
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> I see several issues with the variable initialization in Assign. Some are ease-of-use related, others seem like bugs. I have written a JIRA for Riftsaw, https://jira.jboss.org/browse/RIFTSAW-301 that requests automatic initialization of variables inside the engine. This is one approach to addressing variable initialization problems (moves the responsibility to the engine). In that JIRA I have also noted examples where the BPEL Editor said a copy operation was in error that executed fine on the server, as well as not flagging errors in a copy operation that threw an Assignment Fault at runtime. In general the relationship between the initialization (which is done through a copy operation) and well as the actual assign copy operations, is too confusing for the average BPEL Editor user. The user (we are not talking a business analyst type here, but a process architect / developer) should not have to worry about the syntax of these various copy statement and knowing whether they are correct. They should just be able to say which parts of a message get copied to which parts of another message. Either the tooling or the engine should take care of the rest.

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