Declarative sequencing

["Koller, Shmuel" <Sh...@bmc.com>]

(first mail to the list Trying to get a lead on issue below)  

I am interested in declarative flow/sequencing more light weight that Web
Services choreography - 
like the sequencing  betwheen Axis handlers, along predefined  chains.

For now chains of handlers (design pattern)  are externally defined in Axis
descriptors -
I think Its a good declarative sequencing inside a performant engine.

Here is their comment inside one of the manuals -

 (note for the future : the Axis team, and the Java SOAP community at large,
are thinking about ways to be able to embed this sort of metadata into your
source files if desired - stay tuned!) 

1) What does it mean to embed sequencing metadata in source files ?

2) Will it be possible to carry conditional sequencing, "e.g if then else",
in a declarative way (outside the handlers code)  ?

3) Pls share pointers to other Java based declarative sequencing/flow (not
WebServ, not business processes, not workflow) -
just easy/light-weight flow functionality in a declarative/composable manner

Thanks in advance

Shmuel Koller, BMC