Re: [soa-rm-ra] RE: One-pager

Joint Action is about actions, not about spiritual preparation to act. That is, any JA has its life-time and, correspondingly, the epoch. An ensemble of actions, which we also call session, completes, the JA completes. Since neither consumer-requester nor the service can define when RWE of the JA will be consumed (if at all) but unknown consumers (the shareable part of the RWE), we cannot tie the JA to any demobilization moment; the service may be retired already and destroyed while the RWE it produces before may be still in the public access area.

So, I agree with Chris - every JA has its epoch. We should not mix it with multiple service requests that result in the JA that can exist simultaneously. Any new request results in its own JA as well as in the new instance of the service responding to it (again, the epoch of JA may be called a session, a business transaction, or somehow else. This 'thing' defines which actions are the part of particular JA and which ones belong to about JA for the same service)

- Michael

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From: Rex Brooks <rex.brooks@ncoic.org>
To: Estefan, Jeff A (3100) <jeffrey.a.estefan@jpl.nasa.gov>
Cc: soa-rm-ra@lists.oasis-open.org <soa-rm-ra@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Mon, Mar 14, 2011 6:40 pm
Subject: Re: [soa-rm-ra] RE: One-pager

I think that attempting to restrict or constrain the epoch of Joint Action to any arbitrary time-period, especially post invocation, is a problem. in my view, Joint Action is required any time more than one party is required to move a service toward invocation or toward completion once invoked. It stretches from design time to demobilization. Therefore, it does not fit into any specific epoch.

Cheers,
Rex

On 3/11/11 4:05 PM, Estefan, Jeff A (3100) wrote:

Chris,

Couple of comments:

First, this RAF definition of RWE is quite a bit different from what it was defined in the RM, which really seemed focused on what happens upon service invocation.

Second, execution context is not mentioned at all in Sect 3 of the RAF or at least not in earlier drafts. How is that going to play out in the new updates?

Still having a hard time with Joint Action, in particular, determining its epoch.

Cheers…

- Jeff

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