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Subject: RE: [wsbpel] Issue 81 - Rough draft of proposal for vote


> In your example, there is no race if the invoke is initiating 
> the correlation that the other party is using for the receive.

Same with the two initial receive's within a flow. The start receive initiates the correlation and the non-start receive can use that correlation.

Ugo

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Satish Thatte [mailto:satisht@microsoft.com] 
> Sent: Friday, September 10, 2004 2:02 PM
> To: Ugo Corda; ygoland@bea.com
> Cc: wsbpeltc
> Subject: RE: [wsbpel] Issue 81 - Rough draft of proposal for vote
> 
> 
> In your example, there is no race if the invoke is initiating 
> the correlation that the other party is using for the receive.
> 
> But in general, as I said, there are races that can be 
> detected and ones that cannot.  I am simply concerned about 
> going out of our way to allow something that clearly is a race.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ugo Corda [mailto:UCorda@SeeBeyond.com] 
> Sent: Friday, September 10, 2004 12:07 PM
> To: Satish Thatte; ygoland@bea.com
> Cc: wsbpeltc
> Subject: RE: [wsbpel] Issue 81 - Rough draft of proposal for vote
> 
> The following is also statically detectable:
> 
> sequence
> 	invoke
> 	receive
> sequence
> 
> Depending on the time spent executing the invoke, the receive 
> message might be lost. So are we going to disallow that type 
> of sequence too?
> 
> Ugo
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Satish Thatte [mailto:satisht@microsoft.com]
> > Sent: Friday, September 10, 2004 11:55 AM
> > To: ygoland@bea.com; Ugo Corda
> > Cc: wsbpeltc
> > Subject: RE: [wsbpel] Issue 81 - Rough draft of proposal for vote
> > 
> > 
> > I have a sense of déjà vu that I have seen this and replied
> > to it earlier.
> > 
> > Basically, the answer is that it is possible to make process
> > protocol mistakes that would cause races that would then risk 
> > losing messages.  Not all such races can be statically 
> > detected.  However, non-start initial receives (assuming they 
> > are appropriately correlated) are an obviously statically 
> > detectable case, hence there is no reason to allow them.
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Yaron Y. Goland [mailto:ygoland@bea.com]
> > Sent: Friday, September 10, 2004 10:54 AM
> > To: Ugo Corda
> > Cc: Satish Thatte; wsbpeltc
> > Subject: Re: [wsbpel] Issue 81 - Rough draft of proposal for vote
> > 
> > I agree with Ugo. I don't see the difference. What makes it
> > 'explicitly 
> > impossible' to expect that such a message would arrive? In 
> > fact, how is 
> > it any different than a start receive immediately followed by a 
> > non-start receive? The behavior in the BPEL sense would 
> > appear to me to 
> > be identical.
> > 
> > 	Thanks,
> > 
> > 		Yaron
> > 
> > Ugo Corda wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > >  > Yes except in the latter case we have some expectation of a  >
> > > protocol to make sure messages don't arrive too early.
> > > 
> > > I cannot see the difference. The activation of a
> > non-initial receive
> > > is dependent on the completion of the preceding activities in the
> > > sequence, which can be completely run-time dependent. The 
> > activation
> > > of an initial non-start receive is dependent on the
> > reception of the
> > > initial start receive, which can also be completely run-time
> > > dependent. I don't see how any protocol could do better 
> in one case 
> > > than in the other.
> > > 
> > > Ugo
> > > 
> > >  > -----Original Message-----
> > >  > From: Satish Thatte [mailto:satisht@microsoft.com]
> > >  > Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 10:15 AM
> > >  > To: Ugo Corda; ygoland@bea.com
> > >  > Cc: wsbpeltc
> > >  > Subject: RE: [wsbpel] Issue 81 - Rough draft of proposal
> > for vote
> > > >  >
> > >  > Yes except in the latter case we have some expectation of a  > 
> > > protocol to make sure messages don't arrive too early.  In  > the 
> > > initial non-start receive this is explicitly impossible.  > I am 
> > > just saying that we can interpret this at a technical  > 
> level but I 
> > > wonder if it is really meaningful. Not a huge  > deal but my 
> > > preference is to tighten the features so we can  > justify their 
> > > usage.  >
> > >  >
> > >  > -----Original Message-----
> > >  > From: Ugo Corda [mailto:UCorda@SeeBeyond.com]
> > >  > Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 10:10 AM
> > >  > To: Satish Thatte; ygoland@bea.com
> > >  > Cc: wsbpeltc
> > >  > Subject: RE: [wsbpel] Issue 81 - Rough draft of 
> proposal for vote
> > >  >
> > >  > I imagine that would be not different than the case of a
> > >  > non-initial receive to which a message is sent before the
> > >  > receive itself is activated. It would be up to the
> > >  > implementation to decide whether to cache the message 
> or drop it.
> > >  >
> > >  > Ugo
> > >  >
> > >  > > -----Original Message-----
> > >  > > From: Satish Thatte [mailto:satisht@microsoft.com]
> > >  > > Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 9:40 AM
> > >  > > To: Ugo Corda; ygoland@bea.com
> > >  > > Cc: wsbpeltc
> > >  > > Subject: RE: [wsbpel] Issue 81 - Rough draft of 
> > proposal for vote
> > >  > >
> > >  > >
> > >  > > Suppose such an activity is a receive.  How would 
> the message  
> > > > > be correlated to the instance without danger of being 
> lost if  > 
> > > > it arrived "too soon"?  > >
> > >  > > 
> > >  > > -----Original Message-----
> > >  > > From: Ugo Corda [mailto:UCorda@SeeBeyond.com]
> > >  > > Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 9:31 AM
> > >  > > To: Satish Thatte; ygoland@bea.com
> > >  > > Cc: wsbpeltc
> > >  > > Subject: RE: [wsbpel] Issue 81 - Rough draft of 
> > proposal for vote
> > >  > >
> > >  > > It would probably be easier if you could explain why 
> those  > > 
> > > activities should be banned. What kind of problems do you 
>  > > think 
> > > they would create?  > >
> > >  > > Ugo
> > >  > >
> > >  > > > -----Original Message-----
> > >  > > > From: Satish Thatte [mailto:satisht@microsoft.com]
> > >  > > > Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 10:47 PM
> > >  > > > To: Ugo Corda; ygoland@bea.com
> > >  > > > Cc: wsbpeltc
> > >  > > > Subject: RE: [wsbpel] Issue 81 - Rough draft of 
> > proposal for vote
> > >  > > >
> > >  > > >
> > >  > > > Help me understand why we should allow initial 
> non-start  > 
> > > activities?  > > > Why not ban those?
> > >  > > >
> > >  > > > 
> > >  > > > -----Original Message-----
> > >  > > > From: Ugo Corda [mailto:UCorda@SeeBeyond.com]
> > >  > > > Sent: Friday, August 27, 2004 8:04 PM
> > >  > > > To: ygoland@bea.com
> > >  > > > Cc: wsbpeltc
> > >  > > > Subject: RE: [wsbpel] Issue 81 - Rough draft of 
> > proposal for vote
> > >  > > >
> > >  > > > Your new wording works for me!
> > >  > > >
> > >  > > > Thank you,
> > >  > > > Ugo
> > >  > > >
> > >  > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > >  > > > > From: Yaron Y. Goland [mailto:ygoland@bea.com]
> > >  > > > > Sent: Friday, August 27, 2004 3:39 PM
> > >  > > > > To: Ugo Corda
> > >  > > > > Cc: wsbpeltc
> > >  > > > > Subject: Re: [wsbpel] Issue 81 - Rough draft of
> > >  > proposal for vote
> > >  > > > >
> > >  > > > >
> > >  > > > > An excellent point. So long as we require that all  > 
> > > processes MUST  > > > > have at least one start activity then 
> > > initial
> > activities can be
> > >  > > > > anything.
> > >  > > > >
> > >  > > > > Below is my modified rough draft of a proposal 
> to vote:  > 
> > > > > >  > > > > Section 6.4
> > >  > > > >
> > >  > > > > Change: To be instantiated, each business process must
> > >  > contain at
> > >  > > > > least one such "start activity." This must be an initial
> > >  > > activity in
> > >  > > > > the sense that there is no basic activity that logically
> > >  > > precedes it
> > >  > > > > in the behavior of the process.
> > >  > > > >
> > >  > > > > To: To be instantiated, each business process must
> > >  > > contain at least
> > >  > > > > one such "start activity." That is, a 
> receive/pick activity
> > >  > > > > annotated with a createInstance="yes" attribute. See
> > >  > section 11.4
> > >  > > > > for more details on start activities.
> > >  > > > >
> > >  > > > > Section 11.4
> > >  > > > >
> > >  > > > > Change: A receive activity annotated in this way MUST be
> > >  > > an initial
> > >  > > > > activity in the process, that is, the only other basic
> > >  > activities
> > >  > > > > may potentially be performed prior to or simultaneously
> > >  > > with such a
> > >  > > > > receive activity MUST be similarly annotated 
> > receive activities.
> > >  > > > >
> > >  > > > > To: A receive/pick activity annotated in this 
> way MUST be  
> > > > > a "start  > > > > activity". A "start activity" is an initial
> > activity that has a
> > >  > > > > createInstance="yes" attribute defined on it. An 
> initial  > 
> > > > activity is  > > > > a receive/pick activity where no other 
> > > activities but  > > scope, flow,
> > >  > > > > sequence and empty activities occur before it in 
> > the process's
> > >  > > > > execution path. While all start activities must 
> be initial  
> > > > > > > activities not all initial activities are required
> > to be start
> > >  > > > > activities. If
> > >  > > > an initial
> > >  > > > > activity is not a start activity then the 
> initial activity  
> > > > > > will only  > > > > become active when it is inside of a 
> > > process instance.  > > > >
> > >  > > > > Change: It is permissible to have the createInstance
> > >  > > attribute set
> > >  > > > > to "yes" for a set of concurrent initial activities.
> > >  > > > >
> > >  > > > > To: It is permissible to have multiple start activities.
> > >  > > > >
> > >  > > > > Change: All such receive activities MUST use the same
> > >  > correlation
> > >  > > > > sets (see Correlation).
> > >  > > > >
> > >  > > > > To: If a process has multiple start activities then all
> > >  > the start
> > >  > > > > activities MUST use the same correlation sets (see
> > >  > > > Correlation).
> > >  > > > >
> > >  > > > > Ugo Corda wrote:
> > >  > > > >
> > >  > > > > >
> > >  > > > > >
> > >  > > > > >  > and only receive/pick in
> > >  > > > > >  > addition to the previously listed 
> activities MAY occur
> > >  > > > > in parallel
> > >  > > > > > with  > it in the process's execution path.
> > >  > > > > >
> > >  > > > > > Why limit it to other receive/pick activities? If the
> > >  > > following is
> > >  > > > > > allowed
> > >  > > > > >
> > >  > > > > > <flow>
> > >  > > > > >       <receive createInstance="yes".../>
> > >  > > > > >       <receive createInstance="no".../>
> > >  > > > > > </flow>
> > >  > > > > >
> > >  > > > > > then why not also allow this:
> > >  > > > > >
> > >  > > > > > <flow>
> > >  > > > > >       <receive createInstance="yes".../>
> > >  > > > > >       <invoke .../>
> > >  > > > > > </flow>
> > >  > > > > >
> > >  > > > > >
> > >  > > > > > Ugo
> > >  > > > > >
> > >  > > > >
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