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Subject: Issue 190 - BPEL Internal Faults (New Proposed Issue Announcement


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Issue 190: BPEL Internal Faults

Status: received
Date added: 3 Feb 2005
Categories: Fault handling
Date submitted: 3 February 2005
Submitter: Dieter Koenig1
Document: WS-BPEL Working Draft, December, 2004
Related Issues: Issue 163 : languageExecutionFault, Issue 169 : Transition condition error handling clarification, and Issue 187 : Legality of Explicitly throwing or rethrowing Standard faults.
Description:
There are a number of cases in the current spec where the behavior of a process is described as *undefined*, in particular, after recognizing internal errors described as standard faults.

With the exception of "bpel:joinFailure", *all* of these situations represent modelling errors that cannot be dealt with by the business process itself in a meaningful way. This behavior becomes even more questionable for catchAll handlers that try to deal with multiple application faults and unexpectedly encounter a standard fault.

Submitter's proposal: Instead of allowing processes to catch these as standard faults, we propose that the process instance must *terminate* immediately when such a situation is encountered.

The behavior of terminate is well-defined in BPEL -- as far as BPEL is concerned the instance execution ends when terminate is encountered without any fault handling behavior. Any additional facilities for extended support for, e.g., repair and continue, is definitely out of scope.

This approach would also create a clear direction for dealing with any pathological situation within an inlined language (Issue 163) and therefore also for errors within transition conditions (Issue 169).

Changes: 3 Feb 2005 - new issue


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