WS-BA: Message definitions

["Peter Furniss" <peter.furniss@erebor.co.uk>]

Issue name -- WS-BA: Message definitions

 

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Target document and draft:

 

Protocol:  WS-BA

 

Artifact:  spec

 

Draft:  BA spec cd 2

 

Link to the document referenced:

 

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/18819/wstx-wsba-1.1-spec-cd-02.doc

 

Section and PDF line number:  section , lines

 

Issue type:  editorial

 

Related issues:

 

New issue: definition of Compensated

 

Issue Description:

 

The message definitions in 3.1 should be defined from the perspective of the sender,
not the receiver.

 

Issue Details

 

The message definitions in 3.1 are given from the perspective of the receiver. Although
this is appropriate in terms of describing a (one-way) WSDL interface, it really the wrong
way round to describe the semantics of the messages. The meaning of a message is
better understood in terms of what it says about the sender - who has typically just
undergone a state change, rather than what can be inferred by the receiver.

 

Some of the messages are also defined in the glossary – however, cancel and close are
there defined as actions, and the others as messages in terms of the sender (as
suggested for 3.1). Not all messages/actions are covered in the glossary.

 

Proposed resolution

 

Standardize the description of the messages, and in 3.1 express this primarily from the perspective of the sender.