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Subject: Re: [wsbpel] Issue - 123 - Matching <reply> with <receive>


Danny van der Rijn wrote:

>this would not work for <receive>s that have no correlation.  i realize that
>this is bringing other issues in (as to whether such <receive>s are useful),
>but it should be noted nonetheless.
>  
>
As the spec currently stands you cannot have two outstanding receive 
activities on the same operation/partnerLink without the use of 
correlation. If they are for different operation/partnerLink, these two 
can be use to disambiguate the receive and match it to the reply.

Assaf


>danny
>
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Assaf Arkin" <arkin@intalio.com>
>To: "Yuzo Fujishima" <fujishima@bc.jp.nec.com>
>Cc: <wsbpel@lists.oasis-open.org>
>Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2004 11:19 AM
>Subject: Re: [wsbpel] Issue - 123 - Matching <reply> with <receive>
>
>
>  
>
>>Let's say that the spec was writting with this rule:
>>".... the reply has to reference the same correlation set (name and
>>scope) as the receive, if the receive has multiple correlation sets the
>>reply only needs to reference one of them"
>>To me this seems to be identical to R1 in that it proposes a naming
>>mechanism that links the receive to the reply, and at first read it
>>seems identical to the MEP idea.
>>
>>I'm leaning towards an understanding that the spec allows for a
>>supserset of this behavior, but without precluding this usage. Of
>>course, it all depends on how you read it. But if our concern is to make
>>the simple case simple, I think that the spec currently allows us to do
>>that, it's just not written to highlight the simple case.
>>
>>Assaf
>>
>>Yuzo Fujishima wrote:
>>
>>    
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>The following are
>>>  the summary of our discussion at the F2F and
>>>  a few new ideas
>>>on "Issue 123: Matching <reply> with <receive>".
>>>
>>>Please let me know what you think.
>>>
>>>==== Resolution Ideas ====
>>>
>>>We currently have four kinds of resolutions for Issue 123:
>>>
>>>R1: Explicit disambiguation through ID and REF (Bernd, Yaron)
>>>R2: Restrict the use of correlation sets (Paco)
>>>R3: Resolution-only correlation sets (Yuzo)
>>>R4: Pattern attribute for reply correlation sets (Chris)
>>>
>>>For R1, R2, R3, please refer to 20040622-issue123.ppt, which is
>>>available at the document page of the WSBPEL web site, in addition to
>>>the email messages regarding Issue 123.
>>>
>>>R4 was proposed by Chris at the F2F. The idea is that we specify
>>>      
>>>
>pattern=
>  
>
>>>"in" for a correlation set specified for a <reply> to indicate that the
>>>correlation set is actually for the incoming message, that is, the
>>>message
>>>received by <receive>, rather than the outgoing one to be sent by the
>>><reply>. This way we can specify as many correlations sets for <reply>
>>>      
>>>
>as
>  
>
>>>necessary for disambiguation, while not requiring the reply message to
>>>contain the correlation sets properties. R4 is similar to R3, but seems
>>>to be better-aligned with the current BPEL specification.
>>>
>>>After all the discussion at the F2F, I still feel R1 or similar is
>>>preferable to the rest because I guess that when writing <activity>, the
>>>process designer should have <receive>(s) in mind, rather than the
>>>correlation set(s).
>>>
>>>Accordingly, I elaborate only on R1 below. If you prefer R2, R3, R4, or
>>>something else, please elaborate on your choice and share the idea.
>>>
>>>==== Elaboration on R1 ====
>>>
>>>In a personal conversation, Satish has suggested that we should give an
>>>ID to a MEP instance rather than to a <receive>. I think it is a good
>>>idea.
>>>It can naturally handle the cases where multiple <receive>s and <reply>s
>>>are written in the process definition for a single message exchange
>>>pattern.
>>>(At run-time, only one of each is executed.) I try to materialize the
>>>suggestion below.
>>>
>>>1. Introduce <messageExchanges> element.
>>>
>>><scope or process>
>>>  <messageExchanges>?
>>>    <messageExchange name pattern?/>*
>>>  </messageExchanges>
>>></scope or process>
>>>
>>>2. Introduce messageExchange attribute.
>>>
>>><receive messageExchange? ...>
>>><onMessage messageExchange? ...>
>>><onEvent messageExchange? ...>
>>>
>>>3. Define the receive-reply matching rule as follows.
>>>
>>>Correlation sets of <reply> are not considered in matching at all.
>>>
>>>If messageExchange attribute is specified for <reply>, outstanding
>>><receive>s (or <onMessage>s or <onEvent>s) that make reference to the
>>>same
>>>messageExchange are searched.
>>>
>>>If messageExchange attribute is NOT specified, outstanding <receive>s
>>>that
>>>have matching partnerLink, portType, and operation are searched.
>>>
>>>If there is only one such <receive>  (or <onMessage> or <onEvent>) and
>>>      
>>>
>it
>  
>
>>>has matching partnerLink, portType, and operation, then the <reply> is
>>>matched to it. If not, a conflictingRequest fault is thrown. (Note: We
>>>may
>>>want to introduce another fault for zero <receive> case.)
>>>
>>>4. Example
>>>
>>><scope or process>
>>>  <messageExchanges>
>>>    <messageExchange name="rfq-quote" pattern="in-out"/>
>>>  </messageExchanges>
>>>
>>>  ...
>>>  <switch>
>>>    <case>
>>>      ...
>>>      <receive messageExchange="rfq-quote" ...>
>>>      ...
>>>    </case>
>>>    <otherwise>
>>>      ...
>>>      <receive messageExchange="rfq-quote" ...>
>>>      ...
>>>    </otherwise>
>>>    ...
>>>  </switch>
>>>  ...
>>>  <reply messageExchange="rfq-quote">
>>>    ...
>>>  </reply>
>>>  ...
>>></scope or process>
>>>
>>>5. Discussion
>>>
>>>I am not sure whether we really need the pattern attribute. It may be
>>>useful for validation, but may be cumbersome to specify. Hence I make it
>>>an optional attribute.
>>>
>>>As pointed in 3, we may want to introduce a new fault for matching
>>>failure.
>>>
>>>==== onMessage and onEvent ====
>>>
>>>As I already did above, I think onMessage and onEvent must be modified
>>>such
>>>that it can have messageExchange attribute if necessary.
>>>
>>>==== multiple receives in a loop ====
>>>
>>>During the F2F discussion, it was pointed out that we currently have no
>>>means to express the correspondence between <receive>s in a loop and
>>><reply>s outside of the loop.
>>>
>>><while>
>>>  ...
>>>  <receive ...>
>>></while>
>>>
>>><while>
>>>  ...
>>>  <reply ...>
>>></while>
>>>
>>>I think this is an important problem but too big to discuss in Issue
>>>      
>>>
>123.
>  
>
>>>We may need to introduce arrays of partner links, for example. Hence I
>>>would like to consider it a separate issue.
>>>
>>>Yuzo Fujishima
>>>NEC Corporation
>>>
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>>>
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>  
>
>>>      
>>>
>>-- 
>>"Those who can, do; those who can't, make screenshots"
>>
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>>Assaf Arkin                                          arkin@intalio.com
>>Intalio Inc.                                           www.intalio.com
>>The Business Process Management Company                 (650) 577 4700
>>
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Assaf Arkin                                          arkin@intalio.com
Intalio Inc.                                           www.intalio.com
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