MUWS - 2.1.2 Message Exchange Patterns

[Geoff Bullen <geoff.bullen@webmethods.com>]

Hi all,
I remember as part of the discussion on this section it was suggested that
if we just specify that we need an asynchronous protocol, then you can
implement the single request/reply concept on top of this... so therefore
you don't need to specify both.
It is my belief that we definitely need to specify a direct request/response
protocol.  There are a number of cases where using firewalls makes it quite
difficult to support asynchronous traffic (messages initiated from both
ends) rather than the simpler request/reply - where messages are only
initiated from one end.
I am not suggesting we should not support async, but I think you should be
able to create a management solution without it.
Just my thoughts,
Geoff