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Subject: RE: [ws-rx] NEW ISSUE: Sequence termination on Fault


Looking at this from the "requirement" perspective:

 

- there probably isn't a need to require that an RM Destination takes care of cross-sequence Ordering (that is not such a benign requirement: would affect the protocol: e.g. require associating somehow a new sequence ID with a previous one.)

 

- but there may be a requirement that an RM Source be able to order two sequences if it wishes to do so (even if a RollOver or other fault occurred on first sequence.)  And for this I believe that all what is needed is again to provide the same control on the sequence termination to the Source as in normal cases, so that a Source can decide to initiate the new sequence only after getting all the Acks it was waiting for (and if not getting these, knowing which messages are lost).

 

Assuming that the second point is what we are shooting for, I believe a little more is needed actually:

 

The spec says (section 3.5)

"...After an RM Source receives the <SequenceAcknowledgement> acknowledging the

complete range of messages in a Sequence, it sends a <TerminateSequence> element,..."

 

A corner case here, is when the (few) last message(s) of a sequence appear to be lost. At some point the RM Source will stop asking for their Acks, and stop resending, and will consider these as not received. To ensure there is no chance that a tardy message (e.g. delayed by some intermediary) makes it to the Destination after the last Ack was sent by the latter and before the TerminateSequence takes effect, a final Ack for the entire sequence could be sent *at the time it was terminated* That would help deal with sequence transition issues.

 

 

Jacques

 


From: Doug Davis [mailto:dug@us.ibm.com]
Sent: Monday, July 18, 2005 12:30 PM
To: Duane Nickull
Cc: Christopher B Ferris; Doug.Bunting@sun.com; Jacques Durand; Paul Fremantle; 'Patil, Sanjay'; ws-rx@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: Re: [ws-rx] NEW ISSUE: Sequence termination on Fault

 


Duane,
  I believe Paul is talking about a new, second, sequence that is used as a
rollover for the first sequence - not reusing the original sequence.  If the
second sequence could preserve the InOrder-ness (assuming that is the DA
needed) across sequences then I believe it should work.  The question is
whether or not this type of logic is something the spec should help support
or leave it up to the source to deal with it on its own.
thanks,
-Doug


Duane Nickull <dnickull@adobe.com>

07/18/2005 11:35 AM

To

Paul Fremantle <pzf@uk.ibm.com>

cc

Jacques Durand <JDurand@us.fujitsu.com>, "'Patil, Sanjay'" <sanjay.patil@sap.com>, Doug.Bunting@sun.com, Christopher B Ferris/Waltham/IBM@IBMUS, Doug Davis/Raleigh/IBM@IBMUS, ws-rx@lists.oasis-open.org

Subject

Re: [ws-rx] NEW ISSUE: Sequence termination on Fault

 

 

 




Paul:

I am a bit confused.  Rolling over a message sequence number and
preserving the original sequence does absolutely nothing to reclaim
resources or mitigate the problem of superseding the destinations
capabilities.

Assume for example that the rollover was at 1000 and message 1001 is now
the new 0001.  In order to facilitate reliable messaging, the
destination still has to preserve all 1000 of the original message plus
reconcile message 0001 as message 1001, not have duplicate message
0001's in the sequence.  Since the messaging component of the stack is
relatively dumb and will get its instructions for things like rolling
back transactions form the application/business layer, it cannot release
the first 1000 messages since the upper stack logic may dictate that if
message 1003 is not received in XX minutes, the entire sequence should
roll back to message 934.  Accordingly, it must persist all messages in
the sequence or throw an unrecoverable fault.

The rollover is currently an unrecoverable fault and nothing more.  
That is how it is written in the current draft.

Did I miss something?  Please correct me if I did.

Thanks

Duane Nickull

Paul Fremantle wrote:

>I think Jacques' points about handling the rollover problem "smoothly" are
>key. I would like to see an explicit sequence take-over model that can be
>used to preserve ordering across sequences where one sequence has ended -
>prematurely from the RM sources perspective.
>
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