Issue - 178 - What about variables and fault handlers?

["Yaron Y. Goland" <ygoland@bea.com>]

Issue 178 currently only asks if an event handler can see correlation 
sets defined in the scope in which it is contained. But the question 
could be extended to also cover variables and partnerLinks. Can an event 
handler change the value of a variable defined directly on the scope it 
is defined on? The same question also applies to fault handlers. When a 
fault handler executes can it access variables on the scope it is 
defined on? I realize that once the fault handler exits those values 
will disappear (since the scope by definition completed unsuccessfully) 
but they could still be useful in controlling the fault handler's behavior.

Section 13.3.2 explicitly specifies that compensation handlers can see 
the variables on the scope they are defined on but that is a very 
different situation from access to these variables by event and fault 
handlers so I don't think it clarifies matters.

Is there somewhere in the spec that clearly specifies the ability of 
event and fault handlers to access values such as partnerLinks, 
variables and correlation sets defined on the scope the event/fault 
handler is defined on?

	Thanks,

		Yaron