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Subject: Re: [sca-bindings] [BINDINGS-157]: Clarify optionality of SHOULDstatement BJM60009


Logged as: http://www.osoa.org/jira/browse/BINDINGS-157

-Eric.

On 4/11/11 8:14 AM, Simon Holdsworth wrote:
OFF61B25D7.790E1EFA-ON8025786F.00526549-8025786F.00539F97@uk.ibm.com" type="cite">Target:  sca-jmsbinding-1.1-csd05.pdf

Description:

The JMS binding specification includes statement BJM60009 with a SHOULD keyword:

For an SCA service with a JMS binding, when a response message is sent as part of a request/response MEP where the request message included a null JMSReplyTo destination and the JMS binding does not include a response/destination then an error SHOULD be raised by the SCA runtime [BJM60009]

We need to clarify whether this is an optional part of the JMS binding spec.

Proposal:

For this statement, the reason that an error SHOULD be raised is that the reply is undeliverable, as there is no identified reply destination for the reply message to be placed on. An SCA runtime implementation might provide some alternative means for identifying the reply destination, perhaps dynamically at runtime, or use some fixed destination for such undeliverable replies but I would question the value of doing that in this situation.  I don't see why an SCA runtime would silently ignore this error and throw away the response, so this ought to be strengthened.  The remaining question to my mind is whether this error ought to be handled at the point the request is received rather than the point at which the response is sent.  Should the SCA runtime actually prevent the request from being dispatched if it knows at that point that the reply will not be delivered?  One option would be to strengthen this statement as follows:

For an SCA service with a JMS binding, when a request message is received as part of a request/response MEP where the request message includes a null JMSReplyTo destination and the JMS binding does not include a response/destination then the SCA runtime MUST stop processing the request and raise an error [BJM60009]

This would result in a possibly testable assertion - perhaps being able to test that the target component is not called in this case, whereas the alternative approach of simply changing the SHOULD to MUST in the original statement would still be untestable.

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Simon Holdsworth





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