wsbpel message

Subject: RE: [wsbpel] Asynchronous Interactions

From: "Maciej Szefler" <mbs@fivesight.com>
To: <edwink@collaxa.com>,"Assaf Arkin" <arkin@intalio.com>
Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 08:28:33 -0400



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Edwin Khodabakchian [mailto:edwink@collaxa.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 6:01 PM
> To: Maciej Szefler; 'Assaf Arkin'
> Cc: 'Mark Little'; 'Marin, Mike'; wsbpel@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: RE: [wsbpel] Asynchronous Interactions
> 
> > To me this is a synchronous request/response interaction; 
> > even though the approval process may take weeks, I would 
> > like to model such a process without asynchronous callbacks. 
>  
> > the message correlation in a synchronous interaction 
> > occurs at the protocol level (in HTTP by the response message 
> > being received on the same socket)
> 
> I am confused: Do you envision keeping the HTTP socket open for weeks?

No, this whole discussion was in the context of asynchronous protocols such as message queues, where there is no open connection, but a protocol level correlation identifier.

-Maciej Szefler