RE: [ws-caf] WS-CF and Message Delivery Guarantees

["Newcomer, Eric" <Eric.Newcomer@iona.com>]

Joseph,

I think you are right, this statement needs some clarification.  The guarantee refers to context management messages, not application messages.  You correctly identified the more precise definition in the WS-CF spec.  It's my view that the primer text should be clarified to align with the text in the WS-CF spec.

Regards,

Eric

-----Original Message-----
From: Chiusano Joseph [mailto:chiusano_joseph@bah.com]
Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 1:07 PM
To: WS-CAF
Subject: [ws-caf] WS-CF and Message Delivery Guarantees


In the WS-CAF Primer it states (p.4):

"An implementation of WS-CAF can start with WS-CTX for
simple context management, and later add WS-CF for its additional
context management features and message delivery guarantees"

Focusing on the reference to "message delivery guarantees": Does this
accurately reflect the mission(s) of WS-CF? 

It seems like this is part of the WS-RM realm. The closest (but not
really close at all) that WS-CF comes to referencing message delivery
guarantees is on p.36 of WS-CF, where the delivery of the outcome of an
activity to a parent activity is described:

"Whenever a child activity is started the parent activity registers a
Participant with it that is used to deliver the "outcome" to the
parent."

Kind Regards,
Joe Chiusano
Booz | Allen | Hamilton