Dear Thorsten, I agree with most of your points, lots of people doing it wrong. However, as far as I understood from the link you just provided the R with small arrow simply indicates the direction of the request-response communication, no RPC is mentioned anywhere. Quoting the pdf "Agent A1 can request information from agent A2 which in turn responds (e.g. function calls or http request/responses)". Best, Dénes From: fiware-wpa-bounces at lists.fi-ware.eu [mailto:fiware-wpa-bounces at lists.fi-ware.eu] On Behalf Of ext Leidig, Torsten Sent: Monday, February 27, 2012 5:47 PM To: fiware-wpa at lists.fi-ware.eu; fiware-wpl at lists.fi-ware.eu Subject: [Fiware-wpa] FIWARE: FMC Block diagrams: Reference_Sheet-Block_Diagram.pdf (application/pdf Object) http://www.fmc-modeling.org/download/notation_reference/Reference_Sheet-Block_Diagram.pdf Dear Open Specification Writers, while having a quick look at different Open Specifications in the private Wiki I noticed that there is some confusion according to the meaning FMC block diagrams. Please have a look at this cheat sheet. The semantics is actually very simple. However, it would be nice if we can use it consistently across the different Specs. So for example: * The dotted rounded rectangle means: structure variance (parts of the diagram can be there multiple times, sometimes controlled by an agent.) * If you want to subsume parts of the diagram you should us a plain border box (maybe with a light grey background) * The R with a small arrow means an RPC-like semantics of a channel between two components (agents) * Two components can only be connected via a channel. (no direct lines between them) * A component (agent) can read/write from/to a storage (without a channel in between) Best regards, Torsten Dr. Torsten Leidig SAP Research Center CEC Karlsruhe SAP AG Vincenz-Prießnitz-Str. 1 76131 Karlsruhe T +49 6227 7 52535 F +49 6227 78 29753 E torsten.leidig at sap.com http://www.sap.com Pflichtangaben/Mandatory Disclosure Statements: http://www.sap.com/company/legal/impressum.epx Diese E-Mail kann Betriebs- oder Geschäftsgeheimnisse oder sonstige vertrauliche Informationen enthalten. Sollten Sie diese E-Mail irrtümlich erhalten haben, ist Ihnen eine Kenntnisnahme des Inhalts, eine Vervielfältigung oder Weitergabe der E-Mail ausdrücklich untersagt. Bitte benachrichtigen Sie uns und vernichten Sie die empfangene E-Mail. Vielen Dank. This e-mail may contain trade secrets or privileged, undisclosed, or otherwise confidential information. If you have received this e-mail in error, you are hereby notified that any review, copying, or distribution of it is strictly prohibited. Please inform us immediately and destroy the original transmittal. Thank you for your cooperation. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://lists.fiware.org/private/fiware-wpa/attachments/20120228/116c9022/attachment.html>
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