Re: Coordinated Choreographies Proposal 4 - Finalize Activity

>Related note: After studying the Choreology proposals and looking into
the
>exception handling and finalizer mechanisms in more detail recently, I
think
>the naming of the 'finalizer' leads to confusion in relationship to the
>commonly understood semantics of a Java 'finally' block in relation to
java
>exception handling (i.e. the closeness of the terms tends to implies
that
>the work inside the finalizer block will be performed regardless of
whether
>the choreo completes normally or with an exception). Possibly it should
be
>renamed 'compensation'? 
 
+1 
Being a Java programmer, I agree that the CDL semantics here may be
misunderstood, and that compensation would be a better term to use.

Greg

Received on Thursday, 4 November 2004 20:04:56 UTC