[Section 2.4] Do faults do anything at all?

[Tony Graham <Tony.Graham@Sun.COM>]

In reviewing how faults are handled as part of reviewing Rel 108/115,
I found that it can appear that faults are ignored in all
circumstances.

Section 2.4, Guaranteed Delivery, of ws-reliability-0.94 states,
beginning on line 521:

   The guaranteed delivery mechanism will however do its best to get
   the message delivered, e.g. resend a message in case of previous
   failure.

and also states, beginning on line 526:

   If the RMP sending a Reliable Message does not receive an
   Acknowledgment for a sent message that has not yet expired, it MUST
   resend the same message with same Message Identifier to the
   receiver RMP until the sender gets an Acknowledgment message from
   the receiver, or until the number of resend attempts specified by
   the RetryMaxTimes agreement item is exhausted, whichever occurs
   first.

A literal reading of this section would indicate that receiving a
Fault message would have no effect on the Guaranteed Delivery
processing since the only things that count are receiving an
Acknowledgment message, the number of retries, and the message expiry
time.

Regards,


Tony Graham
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Web Products, Technologies and Standards           Phone: +353 1 8199708
Sun Microsystems                                              x(70)19708
East Point Business Park, Dublin 3, Ireland