[Fwd: Issue 041: Inconsistent Internal State]

[Alastair Green <alastair.green@choreology.com>]

Third reposting

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Subject:	Issue 041: Inconsistent Internal State
Date:	Tue, 01 Aug 2006 07:31:11 +0100
From:	Alastair Green <alastair.green@choreology.com>
To:	ws-tx@lists.oasis-open.org <ws-tx@lists.oasis-open.org>

Inconsistent Internal State is defined thus:

"This fault is sent by a participant to indicate that it cannot fulfill 
its obligations.  This indicates a global consistency failure and is an 
unrecoverable condition."

It is only used, in fact, to mean: "Coordinator has already instructed 
participant to Commit or Rollback, but is now saying the opposite".

This is a condition that simply cannot arise, other than by bug. A 2PC 
coordinator cannot change its mind once it has issued an outcome message.

What is so special about this bug, that it requires its very own fault type?

Alastair