Issue - R10 - Definition of IMA scope

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Issue - R10 - Definition of IMA scope

Status: received
Date added: 19 Sep 2006
Date submitted: 18 September 2006
Submitter: Alex Yiu
Description:

I would like to request to open a review issue to improve the ease of understanding of the spec. The discussion was under the thread of subject: "A possible issue concerning the definition of IMA scope" started by Ron Ten-Hove.

If the issue is passed, we would just need to refine some cross-referencing of terms and bookmark.
Submitter's proposal:

Besides 10.4.1, another relevant part of IMA and message exchange handling is in section 12.2:

12.2. Message Exchange Handling

When the primary activity and the event handlers of a <scope> complete then all Web service interactions dependent on partner links or message exchanges declared inside of the <scope> need to be completed. An orphaned IMA occurs when an IMA using a partner link or message exchange, declared in the completing <scope> or its descendants, remains open. ....

I would suggest to do a brief update in 10.1.4 from:

> Further if an open IMA goes out of scope prior to being closed 
to:
> Further if an open IMA goes out of scope (known as an orphaned IMA) prior to being closed 
from: 
> (see section 12. Scopes for other details of bpel:missingReply).
to:
> (see section 12.2 Message Exchange Handling for other details of bpel:missingReply and orphaned IMA).

Links:   Ron Ten-Hove, 23 Aug 2006     
  Danny van der Rijn, 23 Aug 2006     
  Alex Yiu, 23 Aug 2006     
  Monica J. Martin, 23 Aug 2006
Changes: 19 Sep 2006 - new issue

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