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Subject: RE: [business-transaction] FW: Infinite Loops and webservices
ancient tale, in the butcher's shop: Shopper: "how much are your sausages ?" Butcher: "Four denarii a pound" [i said it was ancient] Shopper: "But in the shop over the road the price is three denarii" Butcher :"Why don't you buy them there then ?" Shopper: "He hasn't got any left" Butcher: "Ah. When I haven't got any sausages, my price is only two denarii" Peter > -----Original Message----- > From: William Z Pope [mailto:zpope@pobox.com] > Sent: 18 April 2002 18:27 > To: OASIS BTP (Main List) > Subject: [business-transaction] FW: Infinite Loops and webservices > > > > Catching up on my reading and found this on ws-arch. Interesting as a > use case. > > =bill > > -----Original Message----- > From: www-ws-arch-request@w3.org [mailto:www-ws-arch-request@w3.org]On > Behalf Of Tim Coote > Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 9:07 AM > To: www-ws-arch@w3.org > Subject: Re: Infinite Loops and webservices > > > Surely any application that potentially puts out contractually binding > information would have to be built with the BTP architecture to cover this > sort of issue, so that it has a sensible application delivery framework to > make the designers / programmers consider this. > tc > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Fraser David" <david_a_fraser@hotmail.com> > To: <www-ws-arch@w3.org> > Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 5:56 PM > Subject: Infinite Loops and webservices > > > > I have an idiot question: > > Given how loosely coupled webservices and their clients can be and the > high > > degree of dynamicity(?) there can be in choosing webservices could it be > > possible that infinite loops could occur between companies? > > e.g. > > Company X manufactures widgits > > Company Y manufactures widgits > > Company Z is a retailer of widgits > > > > Company Z runs out of widgits and through dynamically searching > through a > > UDDI registry determines that Company X has the best price for widgets. > > Company X does not have enough widgets to immediately fulfill the order > but > > instead informing the client of this Company X's webservice has been > > programmed to search for another widget manufacturer (Company Y) in the > UDDI > > registry and buy the widgets at > > cost thereby keeping the business of Company Z. Company Y only has 1 > widget > > left. Unfortunately its webservice has been programmed to search for the > > cheapest widget manufacturer in the UDDI registry if it does not have > enough > > widgets to complete a sale. As Company X has the > > cheapest widgets it invokes it's webservice. This completes the loop and > > Company X and Y end up ordering 6 bazillion widgets from each other to > > fulfill Company Z's need for only a couple of widgets. > > > > D. > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > Join the world's largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. > > http://www.hotmail.com > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > To subscribe or unsubscribe from this elist use the subscription > manager: <http://lists.oasis-open.org/ob/adm.pl> >
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