Some observations

[Pal Takacsi-Nagy <pal.takacsi@bea.com>]

Hi all,

I made an attempt to read thru all the recent postings to get up to speed.
It occurred to me that there were several postings containing:

- large chunks previous messages inlined in a new messages
- repetitive postings

To everybody benefit I suggest that we try to edit the messages before
posting them, so they stay readable (and not unreasonably long...).

Now two observations to the debate going on.

Implicit prepare:

In BEA's WebLogic Collaborate there is no "prepared" message, this
information is implied the application messages exchanged. In BTP we can
take a similar approach for the optimized case: a participant is always
assumed to have voted OK, unless it sent a message to the coordinator
otherwise.

Coordinator factory:

I don't quite understand why we need this. To my mind the selection of the
coordinator can be a private matter to the initiator. All other participants
of the BT will learn about the coordinator via the bt context passed to
them.


Pal