Re: [soa-rm-ra] Re: service interaction [was: [soa-rm-ra]Follow-up to 7-5-08 Telecom]

[Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>]

+1

Cheers,
Rex

At 9:15 AM -0700 5/13/08, Jeffrey A. Estefan wrote:
>Folks,
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>Remember, there are only two types of action:
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>1. [Separate] "Action," which is the application of intent by [A] 
>participant (or agent) in order to achieve a RWE.
>2. "Joint Action," which is an action involving the efforts of [TWO 
>OR MORE] participants to achieve a RWE.
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>Note:  The emphasis in brackets is mine.
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>In the context of interaction, we emphasize "joint action" because 
>you have to have a speaker AND a listener in order to interact. 
>Further, recall that we define the means by which joint actions [and 
>event notifications] are coordinated by service participants (or 
>agents) to be "message exchange," and we define "operations" as the 
>sequence of actions a service must perform in order to validly 
>participate in a joint action.  Consequently, there are indeed 
>separate actions that service performs (i.e., perform operations) 
>and there are joint actions [and event notifications] used for 
>message exchange.  This is why we make the point that messages 
>denote either action (more accurately, joint action) that causes a 
>RWE and events that report a RWE.
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>What we should probably do is make the emphasis on joint action 
>relative to Fig. 40 (based on PRD 1 of the RA) so as to not cause 
>this kind of confusion.  The emphasis on joint action isn't really 
>addressed in until later in Section 4.3.2 when we talk about message 
>exchange.  In addition, it is not just the joint action realized 
>through messages that causes a RWE to occur but also the separate 
>actions (i.e., operations) that the service performs that contribute 
>to the RWE, i.e., it is both types of action performed in concert 
>that leads to a RWE.  This point is not clearly articulated in the 
>RA and needs to be.
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>If yawl agree, I'll make the necessary minor updates to 
>the Interacting with Services model to help resolve this 
>ambiguity before the next PRD.
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>Cheers...
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>  - Jeff
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