Re: Internal processes and/or external choreographies (was RE: Ev ents and States ...

+1

Rgds, Ricky

At 09:49 AM 4/11/2003 -0700, Assaf Arkin wrote:

>Steve Ross-Talbot wrote:
>
>>I'd like to echo Fred's comments. I think external is the way to go and
>>if we can provide "compatibility" as a minimum and "verifiablity" as a
>>nice to have we would have done a great job.
>>
>>The notion of "observable behaviour" and the associated "bi-simulation"
>>are in essence how we should approach the issue of verfiability. We want
>>to ensure that "contracually" the external behaviour defined (allowable
>>message patterns over given states) is the observably equivalent to any
>>implementation. It doesn't matter if the implemetation is done over
>>BPML, Java, BPEL or even by people. If we can observe it as equivalent
>>then we can say it bi-simulates the externally defined behaviour and so
>>meets the contract.
>>
>>One issue I am less sure on is the issue of time. If observable
>>behaviour is allowable message patterns over given states, what role
>>does time play in all of this? Does it have a role? Thoughts .....
>>
>The basic premise is that you treat everything as events and you find a 
>way to agree on the occurrence of events. This also ties the choreography 
>to other models the express everything in terms of events (e.g. various 
>distributed and consensus algoritms).
>
>There are two ways you can agree on an event occuring. By communicating 
>the event itself or by communicating the condition that leads to that 
>event. And there are two ways you can communicate that stuff: by sending 
>messages (events) or by agreeing to use a particular choreography (a form 
>of communication in itself).
>
>An event like 'order completed' is explicitly communicated from seller to 
>buyer. An event like 'order completed notificiation time-out' is fired 
>internally by each service, but the fact that this event will occur at the 
>same time for both buyer and seller is communicated, e.g. as part of the 
>purchase order message, or by agreeing to participate in the same 
>choreography. By agreeing in one way or the other when the time-out would 
>occur, both buyer and seller are synchronized with each other, even if 
>they don't exchange messages to signify the event.
>
>This is much like the real world. In the real world I can call you and say 
>"your order has completed" (possibly leaving you a voice mail) and we both 
>know the order has completed. Or I can call you and say "if you don't 
>reply by 5pm, the order is canccelled". If it's after 5pm and you didn't 
>call me, we can both conclude the order has been cancelled. There's no 
>need for a second confirmation.
>
>arkin
>
>>Cheers
>>
>>Steve T
>>
>>
>

Received on Friday, 11 April 2003 13:25:31 UTC