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Subject: Re: [wsrf] Scheduled termination, heartbeats and dependent objects
David Hull <dmh@tibco.com> wrote on 09/03/2004 12:11:26 PM: > Heartbeating is typically used in the related case of determining > whether a particular server is alive. The server agrees to send out > messages (generally multicast) at no longer than an agreed interval > (in some variations, the heartbeat message contains a "time until > next heartbeat" field, allowing for a variable interval between > heartbeats). If a client does not hear from a server for more than > a given number of heartbeat periods, it assumes that the server is > down. It's not hard to see that a variation of this could work in > the resource world: The consumer sends the provider periodic > heartbeats, and if the provider misses too many heartbeats, it > assumes the resource is no longer needed. I think this confuses the use of heartbeating in a substantial way. Heartbeating is fundamentally about determining "dead or alive" and is not from the consumer to the producer. Additionally, as you point out it is typically a multicast where as in the scenario you describe it would be a point to point message. I do agree that there is a pattern here but I would be very careful of calling it heartbeating. It is more like message activation with an LRU termination. Specifically, it is much more like "this producer hasn't be touched for a while (perhaps predetermined interval) so it is subject to termination". Tom
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